Garden Confidence

A poem.

Garden Confidence

If you must tell the secrets of someone
you do not wish to hurt

better tell them to the penstemon
to the roses, the mugwort

better confide in the garden, dear
... whisper in a lily's ear.

– Jadene Felina Stevens

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