At the Side of the Road

At the Side of the Road

On a pile of garden waste
maybe left by someone,
who didn't have
a dump sticker,
a wilted clump of day lilies.

Take it home,
let's see if
it likes that patch
by the driveway.

That was years,
years ago.

Now,
the green blades grow high
the patch spreads wide
the orange blooms show bright.

Children of the patch grow,
live in other gardens,

from someone's
garden waste.