The Zen Garden

The zen garden decomposing near the Dead Mall made up of lost luggage and discarded tote bags.

The empty empty parking lot of the now dead mall. The zen garden is in the distance around the far corner where the Sears Auto Shop once did business.

In the Zen Garden, a gift from the people of Takaoka, Japan, Winesburg's sister city, one can often see Japanese exchange students arrayed on the perimeter, contemplating the possible narrative of juxtaposition before them.