In the Garden Beyond the Wake – a poem by Casey Flynn

In the Garden Beyond the Wake

in the garden
beyond the wake,
I reminisce.

somewhere
between forgetting
and expecting,

somewhere
between the whispers
of dry grasses

and the croaks
of pond frogs

are me and memory
and you and possibility.

Casey Flynn is a writer, artist, and father. He’s drawn toward the speculative, spiritual and experimental, and has had visual poetry/artwork published in Vallum: Contemporary Poetry. He is working on a PhD in religion and likes to play with his kids, play outside, and play banjo.