Garden Variety

Is it normal
To try out variation
In a tiny plot?

Is it desirable
To bind oneself
In a consecration
To one tiny spot?

Is it pejorative
To see a garden's variety
And imagine that there must be vegetation
Out there that's more hot?

A garden's variety
Insectual notoriety
Is a city and a nation
Of a magnitude N.Y.C.'s not.

For to zoom beyond
The letters signifying
A place's moniker station
Is to look more closely than one can
Pushing to get on the subway
Dodging cars
Drinking cocktails
Staying up late
When the garden bustles
Yet does not hurry
A place where only rabbits trot