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A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde

366 poems day-by-day for a leap year

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      “The Garden Remembers” Mereana Te Kanu, New Zealand (1874–1951)

      April 10, 2026

      The peach tree bends

      where my kuia sat.

      Her bones are there,

      under the mossy stone—

      And the mint still grows beside her.

      From A Poem A Day: Australasia & the Pacific

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