I Planned To Have a Border of Lavender by Paul Goodman I planned to have a border of lavender but planted the bank too of lavender and now my whole crazy garden is grown in lavender it smells so sharp heady and musky of lavender, and the hue of only lavender is all my garden up into the gray rocks. When forth I go from here the heedless lust I squander—and in vain for I am stupid and miss the moment—it has blest me silly when forth I go and when, sitting as gray as these gray rocks among the lavender, I breathe the lavender's tireless squandering, I liken it to my silly lusting, I liken my silly indefatigable lusting to the lavender which has grown over all my garden, banks and borders, up into the gray rocks "I Planned To Have a Border of Lavender" by Paul Goodman from Collected Poems .