My wife is out there
at any cost determined
to bring order
to our backyard
the plants that she
has nurtured with such care
have grown all out of proportion
and transformed our little yard
into a jungle
now she's Jane to my
unprepossessing Tarzan
and I half expect
to see her swinging from
the grapevines
that have overrun
the holly trees
and dangle like lianas
I can only hope
that she comes in
before the leopards get her