Houseplant

a parent is at once both the most common
and most neglected of house plants
those who did not encounter their first parents as house plants
may have done so at say school or perhaps as a first spring sighting
in the park or woodland glade
arms beginning to uncurl from their woolly casings or autumnal shells
or situated close by a gaudy row of shops
i found mine among the new mown grass
it smelled hay-scented and it laughed
and crawled around on four as now i know that lions do
it roared, i squeaked
my house plants had been a young adults but there it had just begun
it is thought difficult to grow a parent
but though young i have had no trouble all these years
my plants are still thriving in the corner
with their odd affectations and occasional moaning
they are spectacular and often dazzle visitors
though their delicate beauty is easily missed
i did have a period of trauma where i failed
to regulate the humidity the moisture and the specified nutriments
so requisite and though their mysteries have baffled science for many years
i have an intuition alert to their modest demands
and so i have come to love and cosset them
and i believe they have responded well
superbly flowered
though i suppose that sometime soon they will have to be repotted