dirt bowl

 

look at the Yard the 

dirt bowl full of holes dug 

by the hound hoping to reach

China but instead hits a plastic pipe that

looks like a dinosaur bone only 

it spews water instead of marrow

so a rusted red wagon grows aided

by a tree stump so deformed it writhes 

with joy no longer violated by chlorinated

pool backwash flooding the rosemary and

ancient roses so old their petals turn to

wrinkled skulls falling to the ground crushing

concrete into bits and bricks into particles so 

you no longer give a shit and you take a 

sprig of mud and go home

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