The Compost Pile is an Oral Tradition
January 21, 2017
The Compost Pile is an Oral Tradition
I can tell you stories I’ve made up by reading pages from your compost pile
of the meals you have eaten
and not eaten
why the lemons have been squeezed but the cabbage and the cauliflower were untouched until your hands carried them here to decay
I wanted to catalog the vegetables and fruits just to impress you, to show you that I had indeed accounted for them all
but instead
I smelled the new earth and the old
then pricked my finger on a rose thorn.
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