Composting
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this wonderstuff of natural declination
that'll grow my beets & beans and other rations
browner than the mere idea: good earth
archetypical as second life and virgin birth
more promising than the phantom wealth of nations
more essential than human beings of highest stations
shoveling this wonderstuff into my wagon
sifting it through hardware cloth
screening stems & stones until it's light and soft
to turn into my garden till my ass is dragging
to reap its harvest then until my light turns off
to lift that harvest to a sun that causes without ever bragging
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by Jim Culleny
6/1/13