Gardening yesterday.

Cutting grass at Semenyih
Worth two blisters
On the palm of my right hand
Gripping too hard
On the short full-metal scythe
An astonishing tool
That needs just a light grip
To fling the blade
For full circles of close cuts
Swishing cleanly
Barely scraping the hard soil
As in badminton
The racquet slicing the cork
Of the flying shuttle ...