The Garden GateAuthor(s): John FigueroaSource: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1/2, <italic>At Home the Green Remains</italic>(March-June 2003), p. 22Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean QuarterlyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40654313 .

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John and Dorothy: dressed for a wedding Chelsea, London, England c. 1952, Monty Rednap photo

Three Poems by John Figueroa The Garden Gate

If Spring Should lose its laughter after And grass be pink, Think, would we care?

If green pines should shrivel away To gray, and Pygmy-wise shrink Think, would we care?

Care? The freshness that is Spring And its laughter, the tallness that is pine Are mine Now and ever after. For as we stood by the garden gate

Late You kissed me.

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