How I Understand People That Love Gardening

A mastodon lumbers out from the forest
Into a field of grasses ebbing and flowing, 
Like an emerald ocean.

A band of brothers hold spears and slingshots
Pressed together as if their lives depended on it,
Watch breathless hidden by the waves,
Each rehearsing and feeling the motion of their arms and hands.

Whoosh – the spears fly
Millions of years of patterns of endorphins
Flood through the winners of the game
Of evolution.

Whoosh – the club swings
Connected to the hands and arms
Hitting a little white ball
Exploding the same endorphins
Through the latest link in the chain of brothers.

I can't get enough
Of the woosh.