![season for reflection](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=579x10000:format=jpg/path/sa4eab938b58d5ccc/image/i6dec7a6689248b7e/version/1708707668/image.jpg)
I design paths in a painting
as a gardener should. If I do it well
you will take the eye path again and again
past the red, over the green
field and along the gray line.
Maybe you’ll sit down and think
about a fence with hollyhocks
that your grandmother grew as tall
as she was, with magenta throats.
And you’ll walk across the grass
path and smell the lilacs.