inside the gates of Eden 

The Eden Poems

"In Eden the surge
where the smashed fruit lay, the coil
on the branch of the tree running
upward
spire like the bone of a spine. . .

Somewhere a bullet strikes brick, or a
prison door
drops shut. In the garden
a green balloon rises out of the grass,
explodes on a thorn.

Look
There are two trees.
This is life undying.
This is a garden.
This is paradise.

For the mercy,
flee. "

- Maggie Helwig -