<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Men Gardening</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Men gardening, knees bent as if</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">In prayer to something forgotten, trying </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">To be remembered.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Men gardening, centuries of civilization</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Dropping off them like husks, shadows of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Stalks, leaves, laying across them</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Like tribal tattoos.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Men gardening, brows muddy </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Painted with sweat, soil, swirling designs of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Passion and desire. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Men planting, knees bent in submission</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">In some remembered act of insemination</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Some means of participating in a miracle.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Flowers spring forth from frustration of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Days in offices, from days behind the wheels of cars. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Vegetables growing, plumping from the pain of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Days arguing in court rooms and nights</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Pouring over accounts.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Men gardening, knees bent as if in prayer,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">For something better, for something different.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Praying for something forgotten </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">And trying</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">To be remembered.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rebecca del Rio</div></div></body></html>