West Trade Review Online Exclusive: "Garden" by Garrett De Temple

Garrett De Temple

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Garrett De Temple received his MFA from Manhattanville College in 2014. His work has most recently appeared in Yo-NEWYORK, Miracle Monocle, and Permafrost. He is a lyricist for the Brooklyn-based songwriting duo The Point (@ThePointSongs) and one-half of the occasional glam-americana band SkyMagik (@SkyMagikBand).

Garden

and your skin was not

my skin

I could touch it

without feeling

pressing

without weight

and your bones caught like crooked beaks

starving a place in the firmament

and your skin was not

my skin

I could touch it

and its heat was like breath

like you dreamed a fever

or it dreamed you

as light entering the body

without feeling it

and the hollows of your bones

caught my shadow, like teeth

pressing

without weight

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