POETRY Magazine cover of September 1998 issue

September 1998

 
  • Grace Butcher
  • David Citino
  • Carl Dennis
  • Theodore Deppe
  • Caroline Finkelstein
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Paths

We had two gardens.

A real flower garden
overhanging the road
(our miniature Babylon).
Paths which I helped
to lay with Aunt Winifred,
riprapped with pebbles;
shards of painted delph;
an old potato boiler;
a blackened metal pot,
now bright with petals.

Hedges of laurel, palm.
A hovering scent of boxwood.
Crouched in...
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