Bruce Bond, a finalist in Narrative’s Fourteenth and Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contests, is the author of numerous books, including Plurality and the Poetics of Self; Words Written Against the Walls of the City; The Calling; Patmos, winner of the Juniper Prize; Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner, 2022), winner of the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music; Choreomania; (MadHat, 2022); and Invention of the Wilderness (Louisiana State University, 2022). Bond is Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

The Garden

by Bruce Bond

One day

            the girl will cast her shadow
            across a hole in the garden
            
            and find
                        a man, a soldier, who fell to earth as angels fall and
                        spring rain.
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