One Piece by Nancy Keating

Annuals

I don’t plant annuals.
Evanescent as my sexiest ex-lovers,
gone like daydreams,
total waste of calories.
Nana put in pansies every year
(see the happy little faces)
Petunias too
(they’re just so sweet)
In her 15-foot yard in Queens.
Annuals don’t last
but I see no harm in sweet
happy faces. And Nana had
some way with annuals;
how many years is it now?

{Poem by Nancy Keating}