Of course that's what pumpkins do,
they grow
as everything in a garden does

My neighbor who tends the rhododendrons
across the street-mulching, fixing soil acidity,
watering by hose for a long hour each evening—

Cassandra Cleghorn’s poem “Good to Go” appeared in our Winter 2000 issue. Her collection Four Weathercocks was published in April.  You get yourself to the point where
you’re sketching on napkins. How to
cluster the balloons, rate of lift. Alti…