April Alyssum

Despite doubts
and cold rains

you came up.

In fact, you were so wild
to join my world

you bunched in, crowding

bodies and heads
like clamoring beasts.

I worried
your many roots
would battle and rob

each other,
a soil box being so
finite.

So I began to thin,

thinking maybe the greenest,
best leaves, or the longest

stems. A few

spunky little ones too.

For the emerging.