New Farm Park Ginko: Jonathan Hadwen & Cindy Keong

                                                          grandfather’s roses
                                                          a spot growing
                                                          on each leaf

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                                                          family barbeque
                                                          teenager texts
                                                          from a separate bench

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                                                         wedding in the park
                                                         only half
                                                         a string quartet

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                                                         dishwasher can’t clean
                                                         the lipstick from the glass
                                                         things you left behind

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                                                         garden bare of flowers
                                                         one curling leaf

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                                                                         poems by Jonathan Hadwen
                                                                         photograph by Cindy Keong

                                                                at the edge of
                                                                the rose bed
                                                                lavender stalks

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                                                                roses in full bloom
                                                                the bride sucks
                                                                in her belly

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                                                                crowded park
                                                                two plover’s
                                                                clear a space

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                                                                 play date
                                                                 dogs teach their owners
                                                                 how to fetch

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                                                                  blisters of burnt paint
                                                                  the summerhouse gone

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                                                                             photograph & poems by Cindy Keong