As spring arrives and the days grow longer and warmer, our garden, indistinguishable from the backyard lawn while covered with a blanket of snow, is starting to show itself again. Early flowers are blooming, later flowering plants are pushing their green stems through the earth. It occurs to me that gardens rewrite what power looks like—steady, undeniable growth that takes root, spreads, grows sometimes invisibly but always undeniably. A garden persists, coexists, influences