Tag: 2022-ZenGarden-02

You left me this autumn. I stand alone under our tree. Our childhood memories lingered in the cold autumn air. The leaves had all fallen, against my will, might I add. Believe me, I tried sticking the leaves back on, but the ground became their new home regardless. You are not gone. My heart refuses […]

The leaves stripped away their green to reveal colors underneath. Red and yellow decorated the trees, but few leaves had made it to the ground. I kept the baby with me, wrapped against my chest, as I worked on the garden. She was quieter like this, where she could see the world pressed against her […]

 I’ve worn out this self, bruised my own body just for a word or a gesture. I have misspelt my own name all in the hope of a summer sky. Then autumn began to splinter the leaves and I thought: home may be what we call a burning thing.I forget what I’ve learnt and forget why I’ve written and grip onto […]

Carpo shook her head sadly as, once more, Demeter wept for the loss of her daughter. Thallo and Auxo, Carpo’s sisters and fellow horae, had graced Earth with a beautiful spring and summer, but now the trees were changing their colours. Long gone the fresh and rich greens of spring and summer and the vivid […]

Ⅰ I thought I left you in the summertime with the foxgloves we planted in the backyard by the fence. Our hands, together, in thick flower beds should have been the end of it,  the end of the memories, but autumn, with its cold heart, has given you back to me in the most painful […]

-Look! -Eh, where?  -Here you idiot, between my eyes! What do you see? -I-I don’t know, your skin?  -Wrong answer, we’ll try again tomorrow. She was taller than me and she picked on me all the time. We weren’t even that close. I kept saying skin for the years that followed, I never understood the point […]

Many people sat in the park during the fall days under the same warm sun and leafless trees. Every individual who spent the day sitting on the worn-out wooden bench noticed something about the surroundings. The air was crisp and clear as the blazing orange sun began to peek over the horizon. The ground was […]

It had begun in the Spring… their love affair.  And just like the budding flowers, she had bloomed. Spring led to Summer, and just like the sun, she shone from within…  giddy with love! But with Autumn came change.  The season held no colour for her.  And just like the leafless trees, she ached with […]

Leila looked through the window. A woman and her son were raking leaves. Some children were jumping on a pile of leaves. It’s autumn. The season of the year reminds her of her hurts and aches. It was on a day replica of the one that stood before her that Keith left. Each step brought […]

The brakes hissed and screeched as the train slowed down to a stop on that crisp fall afternoon. Yousef stepped off wearing ill-fitting clothes, his life’s possessions jammed into a solitary plastic bag. He looked across the street. His father, Peter, was waiting for him in his jalopy. It pained Yousef to see his father’s […]

I visit you, like I do in the spring. Like I do in the summer. It should be harder in the spring, when the world is green and new again. Or in summer, when the earth turns warm with the promise of happy days and long nights enjoyed with loved ones. Yet it is in […]