Tag: garden poem
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Ghosted
This poem began as an attempt to track how a presence moves through a house without naming the presence or the emotion behind it. Its theme is refusal—what the body won’t do, what the haunting won’t accept, and how those refusals shape the space between them.
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Butchart Repose
I wrote Butchart Repose after walking through the Butchart Gardens in British Columbia. The poem began as a record of fatigue and distance—the moment when beauty becomes something you must leave behind.