Old Man Worries Mindless in the Garden
by Marcel Aime Duclos

Glass jars
choke on dirty coins,
hide in harvest garden
this year.

Worms slide
over tight lids,
leave silver trails,
return to soil-work.

Hubbards
swim earthen swells,
grow fat under late summer sun,
drink afternoon rain.

Old man
forgets his plantings,
steps on pregnant graves.
Glass splinters.

Garden
grieves the shards,
hidden children of fear,
harbors naval mines.

Last boat
rejects silver cargo.
Dry Fractured Bones,
reads the manifest.

Old man forgets
abundance
in the end,

mingles
with
the sounds
of night.

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