Summer solstice and the garden’s growing,

room for repeating crops as the first is harvested.

The moon sign’s ripe for seeding flowers and late vegetables—

peas, beans, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, collards.

My mother leads me to the moon and to my personal

experience, which tells me to skip the late planting of 

brassicas, mine never make, even plying my green thumb. 

Watching and celebrating—that’s always in season.