—first line is the last line of Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith

We enter a garden

on an official garden tour
with the intent to steal ideas

a sculpture garden: art at every turn
with the added bonus of photo ops

a garden for the blind
to refine our sense of smell

an herb garden
to connect with ancient wisdom

a hospital garden to escape
or entertain obsessive thoughts

a vegetable garden
to snitch or harvest

in the bamboo garden
where the wind rustles

learn to control your destructive impulses
in the raked sand and boulder Zen garden

become even more self-controlled
in the succulent garden

but be reminded that
we are not alone
in the community garden

and trust that our lives
fertilize the walled-off
secret gardens of our minds.