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Original poem reprinted online here: "The Garden" by Heather Winterer Originally read: February 24, 2013 More information about the Poet: Heather Winterer (Note: You have to scroll down a bit to find her), I'm a sucker for this type of poem -- an allusion to the "fall of man"  "Paradise Lost," "East of Eden," "The History of the World Part I."  My reason for liking interpretations of the "fall of man" is because there's so much potential to work with and it's interesting to see how each artist deals with the scene. The first paragraph I find somewhat hilarious due to the word choice and the phrase, "Never remembered Adam's name for the first giraffe."  "Mutability" is a funny word in a poem like this because of what's not being stated in a sense.  It would be easy to put down "evolve" here, but there's heavy connotations behind that word.  The usage of mutability brings a s...