Garth Dutton

The Effects Of Separation – A Poem

The Effects of Separation
© Garth Dutton 2007

When I was married
I lived for sixteen years in a suburban forest.
We separated,
and it took me sixteen years
to acquire another garden of my own.
It is a metre and a half wide
and the length of my flat,
but there is the 100% ground cover
needed in climates where there are thunderstorms.
The ground cover means
there is also zero loss of soil moisture,
so it is still green in summer.
When I first saw it,
it looked sad and neglected.
I appreciated it,
and within two days
it ‘came to life’.
The next day
New Holland Honeyeaters
visited to drink nectar
from morning glory flowers.
So I now live in a flat
with a ‘wilderness garden’.
I am on the road to recovery
from the state of
‘divorciado’.

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