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Photo by: Susan Wismer
Sanctuary
you hold (your own place)
nettles, scotch thistle, dame’s rocket, chickweed
wild lettuce, blue clouds of forget-me-not
unkempt
at the back of the garden
sun stencils sumac, warm smells
of lilac, dark shade under maples
one toad
dig, dig in deep, in this life
world peace
will not come, regardless
your trowel, careful
furrows the small
mirror shimmer of raindrops
while a frond of green fern
unordered
uncared for
uncurls
out of earth.
Sanctuary,
(in The Northern Appeal Issue 6 2019, p.23 )
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