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By Linda W. Curtis

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.