All Comments on 'from the last shelf'

really liked the last two stanzas.

As usual, a fantastic poem from anna. That first stanza is just wonderful.

I really liked this. One tiny quibble that perhaps a little very light pruning and one period might help - then maybe not.

Oh yes the struggle of the ups and downs of the perpetual diet! Sigh ... I know it well!

Excellent solution to the trigger as well--one that makes sense as a poem, not just as a dashed-off thing to satisfy a requirement.