Love and grazing

Love and grazing

Did you ever know
that when you cut the grass back
the roots die back too?

Overgrazing is
when they take another bite
of that new green growth

And the roots shrink more.
But that new growth: so luscious!
So tender and green.

so vulnerable
to the plant and so luscious
to the one who eats.

See it happen
in the mirror of still water
A prairie complete.