Weeding

 
A wild thing in an unwanted place,
Crabgrass, dandelion, rag weed,
party crashers choking gardens,
 
unnecessary as too many diacritical marks,
or poets who carry
the history of the human heart.
-originally published in Eunoia Review  


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Walls


Walls cover the earth
like snakes, old walls, new walls,
walls to separate livestock, people,
countries, & all, all are defeated
by tunnel or shovel, or time;
Hadrian’s wall, the Berlin wall,
those in ruin or those still standing
waiting to fall, fall by abandonment,
by rain & hard weather, by everything
that did not make them.