A contemporary poem about a garden enters the mouth, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A garden enters the mouth without a word. Petals crowd the place of speaking. I keep my questions behind my teeth. The flowers are beautiful in the wrong direction. They open past every answer, where silence grows its own colour.
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