Why Did The Woman Never Herself Become A Daffodil?
My favorite Hokinson cartoon shows a woman – a familiar Hokinson woman – in a florist shop. Across a counter of bulbs she is speaking to the florist”… and then I covered them with dirt,” she says, “and that was the last I ever saw of them.”
It’s easy enough to picture her in the act of planting. She puts the bulbs into the ground with the same perfunctory trust with which she puts potatoes into her automatic oven to bake. And when the bulbs do not respond, she is surprised that the earth has proved less reliable than the oven.
Had the good woman said not “dirt” but “earth” or “soil” or “loam,” it might have made some difference, but not much. She covered them, and that was the last she ever saw of them.
Apparently there was no prayer, no poem spoken, no touch of ancient magic about the act. We have no hint that she said goodbye to the bulbs as Robert Frost said good-bye to his orchard at the approach of Winter. What was probably farthest from her mind was any thought of going down into the dark earth herself to rise with the bulbs in the Spring.
But let us not be too hard on her. Part of the fault, after all, may have been with the bulbs. Or if not with the bulbs, with the dirt with which she covered them. If the florist gives her new bulbs to replace the lost ones, by the grace of God they may grow.
The only pity is that the poor woman, so far as we can see, will never herself become a daffodil. Much less a tomato vine.
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