Beside your trinket house
the garden gathered rain. I pulled pears
from the pear tree, and saw a few things
grow (the wise, dumb pumpkins
engorged below the gate…)
I split a stump, wrote letters, gathered
oysters, ate the rain.
James Arthur is the author of Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press 2012). He is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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