Seedling

Water droplets behind a seedling pepper plant.
Seedling The soil matters. It should sift lightly through your fingers, bits of peat sticking to your calluses, the smell of crushed acorns faint in your cupped hands, no hint of grit when rub- bed between your thumb and forefinger. Seeds also need water, enough to soak the soil, then heat and sunlight of course, and should be placed in a quarter inch hole easily made with a pencil eraser. Then wait, the guides say, for germination. That wait should sift lightly through your fingers as well, bits of hope and joy sticking to your calluses, the smell of darkness faint in your cupped hands, and rubbed between your thumb and fore- finger, a murmur of friends and bells and cast earth.

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