From the book published in 2021, The Immediate and No Sooner.
Haiku 810
2/21/20
up the stairs turn left
the window overlooking
you and the roses
Haiku 811
2/21/20
Make your second mark
with the trowel. Score the earth
a furrow. Drop seeds.
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Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
Both poems are great but I am especially taken by the word choice in the second one. I like the way the words describing the actions are somewhat harsh, suggestive of violence even, but the action is being undertaken in order to nurture something into life. I like that interplay.
Thank you. I think its easy to overlook the fact that planting something and hoping it will grow, well, it’s hard work to do that and hard work for the plant to eventually become something. The odds are never better than even. Sometimes I feel you have to be detached in situations like this – just do the job, maybe, and be stoic about what happens next.