Amy Miller, a finalist in Narrative’s Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of the poetry collection The Trouble with New England Girls, winner of the Louis Award. She studied at San Francisco State University and lives in Ashland, Oregon.

The Aging Body as a Japanese Garden

by Amy Miller

Gates to enter
and exit, red
when open.

A flat expanse
furrowed,
one side higher.


Water falling through
and, under an obvious roof,
a pump.
People on couch
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