Anecdote of a Bottle Garden

Anecdote of a Bottle Garden

I line a thirteen-gallon jar with sand

and gravel, tamping down a loamy base

for foliage, a place for ants to forage.

I build a nymphaeum with integrated

alcoves for Diana and her deer,

a stone clad Virbius and Egeria.

Outside the monument, I lay quartz slabs

of serpentine, violet granite and slate;

then I plant ferns and grasses in between.

Water trickles down from terracotta tiles,

painting marble walls with mossy woodland

angels, filling the lake where lizards laze.

~Coral~