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Braiding Garlic

Braiding Garlic BRAIDING GARLIC/Robert Gibb You planted it last year, late in the season When the garden's small dynasties were at an end-- Grub-colored garlic, each clove a sliver moon Slipped back into darkness--and no clue In your blood work that you'd never see the green Wands rising above their bed, the seed-casings Forming like turbans. They even waived the biopsy. This spring, to keep the plants from running to leaf, I bent the stalks back toward the ground Where the pale, segmented globes were rounding Into the "stinking rose" of the herbals, the heal-all That failed to, like everything else. What's left except to braid the freshly lifted bulbs Into garlands, add your ashes to their bed? Robert Gibb THE MISSOURI REVIEW http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Braiding Garlic

The Missouri Review , Volume 27 (3) – Jan 25, 2005

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University of Missouri
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Copyright © 2004 by The Curators of the University of Missouri.
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1548-9930
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Abstract

BRAIDING GARLIC/Robert Gibb You planted it last year, late in the season When the garden's small dynasties were at an end-- Grub-colored garlic, each clove a sliver moon Slipped back into darkness--and no clue In your blood work that you'd never see the green Wands rising above their bed, the seed-casings Forming like turbans. They even waived the biopsy. This spring, to keep the plants from running to leaf, I bent the stalks back toward the ground Where the pale, segmented globes were rounding Into the "stinking rose" of the herbals, the heal-all That failed to, like everything else. What's left except to braid the freshly lifted bulbs Into garlands, add your ashes to their bed? Robert Gibb THE MISSOURI REVIEW

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The Missouri ReviewUniversity of Missouri

Published: Jan 25, 2005

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