Spring! & a Coke bottle’s red
wrapper flap snaps
synapses to time lapse
friezes of fisted petals,
stamens, pistils, up-
thrusting thawed earth!
O, but here meltwater
nurtures a nullity;
dwindling snows expose
no hocus pocus crocus,
but an archaeological
hoax, nine months
of sodden limp trash,
rejectamenta
disbursed in blizzard-
spaced layers, like
mauled Troy’s ruin.
In June, all the Inuit
cons who’ve been country—
clubbing all winter
will be handed Hefty
Bags & litter spikes
to restore civic decorum
to this filthy capital,
to give summer a clean
slate & snow a decent
home to settle again.
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