Explore "A Little Window: Question" by Jean M. Snyder on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
("Locheven")
Would you choose / The formal garden / With lilac hedges / And vistas of velvet lawn / And marble fountain / Shining pool and / Marble bench o'er-topped / By drooping willow; / Massed color in trim beds, / And stately garden house / Festooned with wisteria / And guarded by strutting peacock?
Or,
The wood's garden, / The wild garden, / Tumbling over itself / With pale Jacks, and violets -- / Blue and gold, and / Baby ferns, tucked / Within sheltering gnarled roots! / And mossy mounds, starred / With Trillium and Crane's bill; / And patches of lavender sunlight, / (No, it's wild Phlox, / In the flickering light) -- / And fire-flies and flapping owls, / At twilight, and furry rabbits, / Bobbing ahead up the path.
Which would you choose?