Recovery 1: Spring Cleaning
       

Let the physical world be enough.

Blonde grass heads leaning

on a scrub oak's sharp green sleeves.

Redwinged blackbirds—two-tone buzz—

cacophonize a field.

Paint stripped from the old window frame

in white ribbons flings

ditch muck and stink in one's face.

Traumatized rhymes with martinize.

So let the shovel rise up what it will.

Let the current reflect

the sandbar, and be clean.

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