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Sacred Chickens Classic: The Unlovable Garden

2/21/2023

Pale apricot rose with green leaves - photo by JPC

The Unlovable Garden

by Julie Carpenter

I have had and loved many gardens, from my very first back yard in Memphis, where my boxer dug up the plum trees and ate half my climbing roses, to the haunted hillbilly house where we didn’t need curtains in spring because the wisteria draped itself in billows from the big oak tree out front. But I had one garden that, if I’m being honest, was hard to love.

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Four Poems by Jeff Weddle

2/7/2023

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Graffiti seen from a train window in Belgium, 2015

Four Poems by Jeff Weddle

We Could Be Heroes
Just Your Standard Love Story
Settled In
Not John James Audubon, Actually

We Could be Heroes

After they murdered Kong,
the flyboys went out for beer.

“What a day,” Larry said
to no one in particular.
“Did you see that damned thing?
Big as a damned department store.”

“Can department stores
really be damned?” asked Reggie,
the twin brother
of Larry’s ex-wife, Maud.

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Sacred Chickens Classic: The Unlovable Garden

Four Poems by Jeff Weddle

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