My Childhood Garden
My Childhood Garden
Original Text
Bruce Meyer, Mesopotamia: New Poems (Sudbury, On.: Your Scrivener Press, 2009): 58.
1 My footprint in the flower bed.
2 Blue delphinium about to seed.
3 A mountain ash. Pink rose trees.
4 A bed of allysum. Blooded poppies.
5 White cosmos in a string of stars.
6 Lilacs. Madonnas. Lawn mowers.
7 The grass. A nervous dandelion.
8 The fish pond I once tumbled in.
9 Raspberry canes. A patch of ants.
10 The sandbox by a set of swings.
11 Dragonflies with swatter wings.
12 November when it all froze dead.
13 My footprint in the flower bed.
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2012
Form
Special Copyright
Copyright (c) Bruce Meyer. Printed by permission of the author. Any other use, including reproduction for any purposes, educational or otherwise, will require explicit written permission from the poet.