Cathy Farrell — The Monarch Review
The Gardener – Cathy Farrell
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 13:16 — 1 Comment
He used that big heavy iron key to lock the front gate. The gate in front of their house. You could just hop over it to get beyond it, so the key was really just a symbol of security, a pretense of privacy. The gate led to his garden, that he took such pride in. The neighbor ladies would always stop on their way to the market or their way home from church to admire his roses, his dahlias, his tomatoes. My grandmother and I always marveled at how he could stand by the gate and carry on such long […]
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