two works in progress

Here’s the transcripts of two poems that are in the works right now: Garden Ethics, and Neighbors.

Garden Ethics:

BY HALL

I believe that I have found, original sin,
in my garden;
or
As I do
I have to do as Adam
name things as I find them.
and
fancy
the same

I have said it was total depravity. Here it is.
sin in you,
on the surface—
—you may have noticed
sins, an ever-sprouting branch that you can not pull out

This second poem is three parts, the pages are separated by three em dashes.

Neighbors
BY MASH
When I saw
my own,
were to be
Set well back from the road,
were to care nothing whatever
which
For my part, I like to see
; but each has his own unaccountable taste.
I congratulated myself
evidently:
It was understood in the village
(for obvious reasons, I refrain from mentioning names.)
That, apparently, was what they desired

———

I saw a great deal of our neighbors, nevertheless
I caught
frequent glimpses
I used often to linger
and listen
at some window upstairs,
There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, about this

———

Of course
at this time
suppositions
have been as well pleased if
not overhung
my eyes open later in the season,
some
difference between
very strongly developed
sufficiently magnanimous not
sinister impressions
for I despise a gossip
against the persons
definite to say. My interest in them was—
burning low.
After a while I missed my occasional glimpses

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