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Miriam Sagan

                 

African Thorn Tree

Do you remember that little garden
Someplace seemingly ordinary
On the garden tour of Venice Beach?
There were African thorn trees,
A kind of acacia
Covered in protuberances
Like the many-breasted
Diana of Ephesis.
What's going on here? you said
We sensed some kind of spiral
In the garden path
Design in the placement of garden chairs
Wrought iron table
As if expecting
A green girl, a god with horns.
Years later, suddenly seeing
One of those trees in a bourgeois Florida garden
I can't remember
If it was real, or just
The suggestible power
You've had over me
Since we were girls together,
The suggestion that something might happen
Just because you were there.

Copyright © 2002 Miriam Sagan.

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