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I am doing the garden
Probing and slicing
Tearing and slashing
Toiling away
I am doing the garden
There is a resonance
With the gardening when I was at mother’s
Back in the day

I am doing the garden
As I did back then
With clippers and mower
In the garden alone
For one did the garden
And for me back then
I was avoiding
A jungle at home

I was in the garden
Giving some order
To that which, if left
Would overcome us

Morning or evening
Doing the garden
Not a garden, mind
Like those down the road
Doing the garden, I was
But no mini landscape
Of fluorescent flowers
Or lawn line-mowed

No , not like those down the road
I was doing the garden
Keeping wild sprouting within
Boundaries acceptably good
To avoid catastrophe, I see
Now, I was doing the garden
While those in the house
Wept, as they would

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from What was left, released March 31, 2023

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Jon Airdrie and the Enablers Newport, UK

The Enablers is a band/project having the central notion of bringing a core number of people together to fashion a collection of songs, and then to record these songs, capturing the mood of the time - the mood both of the compositions themselves and of the band for the project's duration. To date, there have been eight Enablers. ... more

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