Excerpt:
my side of the garden endured,
as I scraped back bare soil:
the earth I once remembered,
the remnants of what I started with.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
Tag / weeds
Excerpt: Weathered Fragments, Weathered Souls
From “Weeds”
as I scraped back bare soil—
the earth I once remembered—
the remnants of what I started with.
J.L. Smith 