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Well said! ;)
Timid

Thank you. Usualy I'm fine with drop outs... i'm one myself... but when it comes to lashes they need to be caught before they drop out (and into my eyes)

are there many people
you'd like to pluck...

Only ripe ones...

I love the underlying depth of this,
the regrowth from pruning.

Hmmm... I'd call it more of a cull

Nothing grows from a cull, does it?  
Or maybe I'm just confusing the term.  
But, when I cull my photos they're  
permanently discarded. Pruning ensures  
healthy regrowth, thus your final stanza
of fortitude and returning growth?

I suspect you're a very good gardener and I would need to talk to a gamekeeper, but don't culls preserve healthy populations that then grow stronger?

If you're referring to the culling of weeds, yes.
Perhaps it's the eyelash vs. garden reference
that confused me.

In the case of weeds it is outright killing... but being weeds that never results in extermination. Even the daleks would give up :)