What garden do your stories grow?
after Angelo Mao
By D.W. Baker
April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024
*Bold text attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt
D.W. Baker is a submerging poet from St. Petersburg, Florida, where he writes about place, bodies, belonging, and the end of the world. His work appears in Sundog Lit, Corporeal Lit, Green Ink Poetry, and Modern Haiku, among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. He reads for Cosmic Daffodil and Hearth & Coffin. See more at dwbakerpoetry.com
Author's Note:
The poem “What garden do your stories grow?” is a formal experiment, after the work of Angelo Mao, that uses a quotation technique to explore our understandings of languages, forests, and communities, and to question what it means to inhabit each of those domains with love and responsibility.