The Future, by Marian Rogers

This was written earlier today, Saturday, March 24, during the last five minutes of a Writing Circle in the Painted Parrot Writing Studio. We were playing with the Paint Chip Poetry Game, choosing various words that set a theme and got us started. But that’s when the magic began …. as individual pieces took shape in meaningful ways.




Time past, I wanted the Garden of Eden in our backyard, to create it. That was ambitious, presumptuous even.

Time present,  what we have is the herb garden and the parts of the rock garden we transformed from red rock desert to alpines, lavender, and many kinds of sedum in time for the engagement party.

Time future, it will be a luxuriant jade plant, the kind that's like a tree, many-limbed, succulent leaves, wherever we find ourselves then.