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  • Gardened Man
  • Dan Encarnacion (bio)

so much depends   on the red barrow’s grasp—         a bleached rat’s jaw   hung   by a wire—     a church key   tied with a gray shoelace—

Christmas tinsel and rubber raspberry handlebar        streamers discharged from a foraged    tireless Schwinn—     there is also the Saint

Christopher’s medallion   he wore   as a boy      so he could walk alone to school,    shield a toothache,       ward away a storm—in the metal belly

of his barrow    [flat rectangular frame,   tumulus,   castrated swine] when not filled with   accumulating leaves   he would layer   throw

pillows fought   from the free pile     of a closing church   rummage sale—gold      and tasseled with a single large button   in each pillow’s

puckered felt,   each plushed side—atop      he’d lay a cleaned G.I. Joe doll [End Page 570]

Dan Encarnacion

dan encarnacion has published work in Word Riot, Blue Mesa Review, and Eleven Eleven. He was a featured artist for Reconnaissance Magazine and is included in the anthology Reduce: A Collection of Writings from Educe Journal 2012.

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