I looked out my window, and what did I see, but a hairy beast beneath the sycamore tree.
I saw his snout and tusks, and the tooth-filled head eating a sedge in my garden bed.
I shouted, he snorted, I grabbed and pulled his hair.
”Get away, you beast! Don’t come back, don’t you dare!”
I let go my chokehold and his furry hide of bristles.
He ran to his boar herd through a field of thistles.
His story soon told that all boars should be wary.
Stay away from humans, they sure are scary!
— Linda W. Curtis
Linda W. Curtis is a botanist who has written extensively about Carex sedge plants in books and scientific articles. She's the author of two humorous books, Bench Therapy and Bench Therapy Two.