The Garden

from The Garden by Rama Gu

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picking us up after school
you’re flying out that night
i fall asleep on the long drive
sofie in the middle seat
izzy sad you’re gone a week
i don’t want you to come back
i’m not that allergic to the cats

waking up we have a peach smoothie
to start the day
at lunchtime we’ll put out a tray
pickles, turkey, bits of cheese
she keeps some root beer as a treat
he cleans his cameras falls asleep
this type of settled life suits me

the garden is a symphony
strings playing pastoral themes
potting roses in the garage
WQXR on

i cannot name the plants
the latin names all passed me by
but they’re known for it the county wide
my parents got married here
the rhododendrons in the air
right on these gazebo stairs
before we leave he poses us
for a photo there

as you load us into the car
i don’t want to go home
but i’m glad we are once on the road
‘cause lately he’s been acting strange
i can sense him slip away
but i know some things will never change
the apple pies and the bouquets

all the slides that he’d project
were photographic evidence
momentary then it’s gone
i didn’t understand that part

i’m shining a light through a translucent slide
but i can’t see what i missed through the years
when our grandfather died she moved down south
into a big empty house in a suburban development
to be closer to our mom’s sister’s family
leaving behind the plants in the garden
that i never learned to name

visiting one late july
she had a chore for me
the garden won’t tend to itself
three months later she died suddenly
so that’s one of my last memories
annoyed in the carolina heat
that bag of mulch was so heavy

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from The Garden, released November 6, 2020

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