Today’s petite pen is inspired by a recycled poem that I wrote eight years ago and have now paired with a painting by Toni Tiu called “Recycling Day.” If your empties have something more to say, please feel free to join me in writing a bit of brevity, 130 words or less and feel free to up-cycle a previous work.
Happy Tuesday!
Recycling Day
A milk carton
barrels through the streets,
tumbling on itself,
a drunkard’s feat.
Celebrate its roll,
a clanging bell.
Farm the freedom
of the day.
Buttery containers
slide behind,
taking the wind’s push,
freed by the absence
of lips or legs.
While foam inserts
chafe the earth,
then rest in my yard;
a surfboard for ants
in a sea
of wavy grass.
Cereal boxes
lead the parade.
Flattened squares,
twirling like
high school color guards
with sloppy pep.
While the plastic bags
breeze along,
letting the wind make their
brown skin glisten,
effortless grace.
Then, metal can:
the main event,
jacketed in silver,
clangs loudly
a stunt man;
reckless and unafraid.
Recycling day,
we pile the parade,
while the wind
carries our efforts away.
© 2022 | K.Hartless
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