Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards

Vegetable Garden
    
 
       A few destitute people lived in the city outskirts
where the old vegetable gardens used to be; the flies
tyrannized them all day and the stars during the night
but if you looked at that direction, beyond the smoke
from the burning rags, you could see a dreamer
passing silently, leaving the women with that vague
smile and that secret promise to the men.
 

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