Poetry: Aspirational Self-Portrait as Woman Gardening in a Wide-Brimmed Hat by Alexa Patrick
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This poem’s vision, or aspiration, is one of abundance, basking in the speaker’s “own plenty.” Alexa Patrick’s poem sings, and in its singing creates a world so vivid we can touch it, so vivid that we, like this speaker’s hopes…