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Jeremy Radin

​A Lover
Gardening on a moonful night, veiled
    in pale petals. Which longing 

is the true, the proper longing? 
    Nearly four decades gathering moss 

onto my shoulders, & time lost
    track of me in its terrible shell. No--

I was never going to be a conqueror. 
    All I wanted was a bit of shade, a bed to fill 

with peas & radish & cabbages.
    Now, hands plugged like electrical plugs 

into soil, to the moonlight I release a whisper--
    it travels up the beams, makes a blusher 

of the moon. In the next life, yes, I was 
    a lover, & in the last--

but not here. Not yours.



Jeremy Radin is a writer, actor, teacher, and extremely amateur gardener. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, The Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of two collections of poetry: Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012) and Dear Sal (Not A Cult, 2022). He is the founder and operator of Lanternist Creative Consulting, through which he coaches writers and performers. Follow him @germyradin

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