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Winthrop Park
We reach the sanctuary of Winthrop Park
a painful trek through traffic noise
tense nerves and beating sun
this is a place where none
might take offence
so many blossoms coloured stalks
varieties beyond a layman's grasp
here if your time had come at last
you could float tranquilly to heaven
in birdsong, summer-scented air
Let me show you the garden
Let me tell you how we made it
from nothing volunteers
a place to come for peace
I've signed you in.
We sleep a little while
across short stretch of lawn
a golden hedge
shines in half-shade
I think you see it but not sure
I try to take your hand
You can get tea for
next to nothing. Open every day
until September's end. We are
all volunteers. You can come
here for peace and quiet.
And we sleep again
Your eyelids close
I think you understand
a half-smile seems to flicker
though your head is falling
We're open every day until October. We
we know
we know