Stop That Weed!
Mar 16, 2020
3 minutes
BY ROY BLOUNT JR.
I’m bent over double in the courtyard, teasing, tweezing—easy now, firmly but care…fully…
“Lizard? Got a lizard?”
That’s Jimmy, bursting through the monkey grass. At last, his expression tells me, I may be into something that can animate a cat.
“No, Jimmy,” I have to say. “Oxalis.”
Oh.
Say you have a youngster at home who has got the impression that your friend coming to dinner is a pirate. And you have to say, “Well,
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