To Lie Fallow

To lie fallow for awhile--

at least for a season--

and then, revived by disuse,

to bear a different crop than before.

And so around, from field to field,

by changing seeds sown on the ground,

an increased yield is gained,

by simply lying in wait.

This was the plan.

Thus, by indirection one arrives

at a place where, years before,

things began;

a plot that passers-by thought

gone to seed,

produced instead

the lines you read.

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