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Chapter XIV: The Gardener

from The Memory of Good by Miriam Marston

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A faint sign of gladness makes her
pause in all her sadness.
Fair and so faithful, she throws aside careful;
hardly knowing what to expect,
she makes her way over –
maybe it’s safe now, it’s been a few days now.
And she started weeping,
as though she’d never cried before,
she thought she’d lost the only one she’d loved.
And three of the longest days of her life had come to this:
waiting by a stone.
And then she saw the gardener.
He asked her how she’d been.
“I’m sad and I’m scared, but why do you care? You’re just the gardener’s son.”
Do you recognize Me now?
‘Go tell all the others that you met me.
They might think that you’ve been drinking through the night,
but don’t let all their doubts keep you away from me,
the world will likely tell you that it’s
all in your mind.’
She comes to the home she’d left
anxious and alone but
it feels more like a mansion now,
though she can’t yet mention how
everything around her seems infused with glory.
Her hope expands as the world just stands still.

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from The Memory of Good, released September 7, 2017

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Miriam Marston Portland, Oregon

I started composing when I was 10. I called one of my first songs "Nostalgia", although I can't recall what my ten year old self was so nostalgic about. Released my first album in 2000. Things got busy, but I never stopped writing. Even if it meant composing on a mostly-broken piano in the basement of a university that I wasn't even enrolled in. Enjoy all the music and reading! Pax. MM ... more

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