Poem-A-Day: In the Happo-En Garden, Tokyo by Linda Pastan

February 25, 2014 In the Happo-En Garden, Tokyo    by Linda Pastan The way a birthmark  on a woman's face defines rather than mars her beauty,   so the skyscrapers-- those flowers of technology--  reveal the perfection of the garden they surround.          Perhaps Eden is buried here in Japan, where an incandescent koi slithers snakelike   to the edge of the pond; where a black-haired Eve-san in the petalled folds of a kimono   once showed her silken body to the sun, then picked a persimmon and with a small bow bit into it.     Copyright © 2014 by Linda Pastan. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem  "For years I have been obsessed with Eden, and with Eve in particular. So perhaps it's not surprising that while visiting a very different, very beautiful garden in Japan, Eden and Eve came immediately to mind." --Linda Pastan  Most Recent Book by Pastan Traveling Light: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2012).          Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Linda Pastan is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Traveling Light: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2012). She lives in Maryland. Related Poems Done With by Ann Stanford Garden Homage by Medbh McGuckian They'll spend the summer by Joshua Beckman  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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