We've watched it under the deck for years--
then it decided to dig up
Job's Tears.
Once I thought it was hopelessly cute--
But with its desire to pillage and loot,
I want it no more in my hot urban yard!
But--diverting the rodents is outrageously hard.

“If we are honest, we can still love what we are, we can find all the good there is to find, and we may find ways to enhance that good, and to find a new kind of living world which is appropriate for our time.” ― Christopher Alexander