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Lost Garden by Janet Lewis read by Joan Haas
1982

Children asleep in deep meadows.

Young popples

Grew round the house

And a wasp nest hung in the door,

Silvery like logs.

Garden mint and sweet william

Lost in the flowing grass.

Granny Cadotte, Granny Cadotte,

Your garden is running away!


Janet Lewis. Poems Old and New 1918-1978. Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, Chicago, IL, 1982 p.20