I See Her In the Garden
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Inspired byThomas Edward Brown’s “My Garden”:
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
‘Tis very sure God walks in mine
(verse 8-10)
I SEE HER IN THE GARDEN
Planted; taken up
as the soul rises
to heaven; yet
the soil absorbs
the tasty or demure,
unless plucked -
its juicy tomato,
red and ripe
or likewise
the precocious rose,
its cheekiness.
Wicked maelstrom
maimed a few feet,
its feat of satisfaction
fell the eaten tree,
making dust - the earth
already dust to dust,
now gardening.
Some snippets
grew back
in the Spring
and Calla roots
were buried -
their shoots
thus carried
through many
suns and moons.
I see her -
she stands,
watches,
snaps, adores
each riveting leaf,
yearning for the bud;
and then to open,
like a child’s hand.
This small patch,
hers; and His.
He watches too.
Waiting in the cool
of eve, hardly
moving,
but definitely smiling.
6/29/2023
Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2023
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