Garden of Eden
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Summer in the Garden of Eden
So hot.Naked is good when you sweat this much.He climbs the tree in search of a breeze.Ah, here it is.Sunlight through leaves patterns his brown skin. He sighs for companionship.Where is that snake?Of all the animals,the one with words. Much… Continue reading
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One Afternoon in the Garden of Eden
"If we're not going to eat the fruit," she says,"we may as well use the wood." "Dock for the lake," he suggests. "Diving board!" she adds. "Canoe." "Paddles." They get to it, lopping limbs, breaking branches, chopping at the trunkHard work, but satisfying–easy… Continue reading
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Autumn in the Garden of Eden
As winter approaches the Garden of Eden,autumn's cleansing handstrips bare the branchesof the tree of knowledge of good and evil. What, then, is left to know? Stare up through the black, beseeching limbsto the infinity of stars beyond. Text and… Continue reading