Gardensong
George David Clark

Gardensong

in the gardens
            in the gardens
you are walking
            you are walking
through the roses
            to the roses

you are almost
            you are talking
in a whisper
            like a whisper
to the roses
            mottled roses

now you’re leaving
            now you’re leaving
through the tulips
            through the tulips
night is falling
            lightly falling

bye to you
            goodbye to you
by the pansies
            ’side the pansies
by the pansies
            bye to you

George David Clark

is Assistant Professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College. His first book, Reveille (Arkansas, 2015), won the Miller Williams Prize, and more recent work can be found in Agni, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Image, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He edits the journal 32 Poems and lives with his wife and their three young children in Washington, Pennsylvania.