The Outlaw Poetry Network Tag Book

A Japanese Gardener
by John Bennett

There’s this
Japanese gardener
who looks 40
but is
probably 60.
He’s less than
five feet tall &
looks so
Japanese he’s like
the essence of
Japanese.
He drives a
rusted 50s pickup
loaded with
tools &
garden trimmings.
I clean windows
for a customer who
last time
I was out there
asked
if I knew a
good gardener.
Then yesterday
I saw the
Japanese gardener
in my
rear-view mirror,
loading his
tools on the
far side of a
grass divide.
I got [...]

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