banana tree keeper

yellow flora warden
banana tree keeper
of a formal garden
in the high renaissance

Do not ask where the banana tree is!
it is in the field of daisies.
Do not ask where the banana tree is!
it is with the daffodils.

be warned mere eaters of bananas
i will not pluck and serve you
i follow the principles of horticulture
eternal in their rewards

Seven times a year we meet
to dig and prune and plan
Seven times a year we meet
to reroot the daisies

Our garden is the fragment
of an ancient banana tree
which once progressed verdurely

Our banana tree is a bough
off that ancient trunk,
now rotten and forgot

agriculture has not changed
but now it is a different game
for every newly imported plant
we find an ordered place 

and this is why
we dig and prune and plan
and this is why
we move the banana tree
and this is why i am
the yellow flora warden
of a formal garden
in the high renaissance