The Bargain

Generally, I am on the Clean Side; but, garden soil is my rich exception -- I wallow in it, a piggy for the scent and feel -- Sort of like, training wheels on bicycles are for sissies, glove-less, I dip and knead; saturate and soak. Claw! Compact! Sniff the compost, deeply investing with bacteria: praising, composing a reverent hymn, How gloriously Efficient Is Nature!~ our Mother recycling, wasting nothing, reusing all, earth gripping back my hand, a bargain seal of the grave --