The Crazy Garden ('In The Madness You Find An Order')
 Have you seen impatiens grow on spikey stemsÂ
     I have in the crazy garden
     Here egg shells grow on cacti
     The infamous egg tree you told me about
     Here crows use white washed picket fences as  serviettes
     And metre long lizards tend the ferns
     Where the garden lights never come on after dark
     So you navigate the pathways by moonlight and birdcalls after 7
     Where black monkeys are the upper tree gardenersÂ
     And civet cats use the golden cane ladders and
     Together with the moon peer at you through holes
     In old verandah ceilings
     Where elephants are your front gate wardens
     And antheriums are only matched by hibiscus
     In their pinkness plentiness and placing
     Have you played with cotton flower seedsÂ
     On evergreen tuft grass?
     I have in the crazy garden
     You can take the path of 10000 steps, you can stroll
     The hedgerows or lay beneath the golmahore tree
     Shaded and draped with cascading orange flowers
     From an unknown vine seeded in an unknown time
     You can invent characters, you can write insane poetry
     You can laugh out loud you can cry to yourself,
     Count the colours and talk with birds
     You can hum with the bees
     You can dream because you are allowed to be crazy
     Here in India in the crazy garden.
poem by Geoffrey Fafard
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