Garden Tercets

A backyard garden
planted with flowering perennials 
so as not to seem deliberate

the green stalks swell
with anticipation
awaiting the creaking gate

of summer to open up
letting in, with a firm step,
the first orange flowers
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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