A Golden Shovel, from Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 2

Written Upon the Green Party Winning Four Seats

by Julian Bishop

A musk rose budding, rosette for
a buttonhole, a worn lawn being
revived to a truer state of green
in a July of heavy rain here, there,
everywhere across land which is
desiccated by a drought so great
every raindrop chimes with hope.

Note: After losing his faculties, Henry VI was deposed by Edward IV, whose reign marked the end of the Hundred Years War.