CAUTION: PLOT POINTS MENTIONED EXCEED BOOK FLAP NORM

It seems to be de rigueur on poetry translations these days to put the original author in a footnote. I'm sure that it takes just as much work, if not more to translate a poem as it does to write a new one and that the translator deserves a lot of credit, but I'd still rather attribute the work to the original author, as I've done here. This is a fine poem, ostensibly about a garden but really about life changes. ( )