The Earthly Garden Poem by jackilton peachum

The Earthly Garden
(Suite Orientale)

1. This old crooked tree!
It blossoms like a sapling--
thinking itself young!

2. Falling through space
the fruit awakens
to what it knew in the tree.

3. If the world was still a garden,
a tree at it's heart
wouldn't we all be apples?

4. You are in theological error--
you have been deceived!
It was I, pomergranete
brought on your carnal knowing!

5. Earthroots and the tree striving upward,
arms in Heaven, waving to praise God for it's being--
but death is in the bole,
rot sits in the wood,
decay in the fruit.