Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 1
Same-Sex Attraction
There are many myths mistaking the domestication of Hydrangeas,
not least: the degree to which color can be manipulated or controlled.
White Hydrangeas never can be pink, red can’t bloom in southern soils.
Violet may be forced by adding aluminum to the toil,
potted blossoms a bit more certain than the accidental.
But leaf meal mold in the suffocating ivy or transplanting
are as likely to accomplish several shades on a single Royal.
Neither husbandman nor husbandry unerringly anticipate God’s will,
but as the Preacher long ago foretold: Time and chance,
and Hydrangeas constantly surprising us by their roil.