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  Garden Game

  By Loretta Oleck

  in the garden wearing flat leopard shoes

  reaping the harvest of herbs

  a shower of diamond dew

  sparkles through towering oaks

  you stand by the purple ruffled basil

  one hand a visor over squinting black eyes

  one hand carelessly holding a dusty trowel

  head cocked dramatically to the side

  wondering which is the best direction to

  carve the path

  stab the earth

  drag your spade

  a roulette circle cutting curved lines

  through the center of tangled thyme

  around high stakes

  resting my bets that your labyrinth

  will lead under the dangling snap peas

  and land on me