Unbeknownst

Remedial Weeding

21 Remedial Weeding You don’t need to know its name to know it is a weed; if it has taken hold between two paving bricks, if its thin root or complex undermop is wedged where the concrete riser joins the concrete step, then assuredly it is. It is redundant, stubborn work, to which you squat or kneel or bend, moving lowly in one manner or another over the entire area to be covered so that, naturally, afterwards, you’ll ache. And yet, what better use could you have put these to: one yellow-handled tool and two tightening circles of thought? For those times when the heart, still resonant and stunned, is dominant, this is the kind of work you want, where it is best to look no more than one weed ahead, and where the iron inability to set a course drills the focus downwards with single-mindedness and depth. ...