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Marc Zegans is the author of six collections of poems, most recently, The Snow Dead from Somerville’s Cervena Barva Press. His poems are often translated to stage as immersive theater, most recently to the San Francisco LitQuake production Sinaesthetic, and Erotic Eclectic’s, Sirens, Dreams and a Cat, which was based on his poems and those of D.L. Wilder. His verse has also given rise to several short films. Marc’s poetry and creative advisory services can be found at www.marczegans.com. 

For Meri Jenkins
From The Absent Gardener

Marc Zegans

I am happiest in a garden
for in a garden I flower
along with the buds
and bulbs that break

the soil at first call of spring.
I am happiest in a garden
when it has passed the fallow
season, the ground fresh broke

the earth turned and the day warm
upon my toes, which I wiggle, sockless.
I am happiest in a garden.
Though other pleasures do draw

me swift through high-hedged
country roads, foot off the brake
as they twist like arbored vines.
I am happiest in the garden

with book in chair or trowel
scooping topsoil, an entry
to planting, and what follows
in the growing months

roses cascading over thorns
lush, fragrant, full in delicate
bloom, whose memory reminds
that I am happiest in the garden.

— Marc Zegans

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