Detritus Redeemed

My dusty green
      second-hand
            campchair
is planted in
      weedy gravel
            within
whiffing distance of
      the broken
            down
RV resort bathhouse,
      cracked plastic
            clips
mended with duct
      tape. Shriveled
            cottonwood
leaves chatter underfoot
      in the
            sweltering
breeze. Löwenbräu caps
      compete with
            plantain,
pullrings, broken glass,
      and dandelion
            for
space to root.
      No beauty
            salvages
knotted dry grass
      struggling to
            hide
on the low
      hillside behind
            me.
What do you
      imagine I
            see?

The setting of the seat—nay, the seat itself—
is but sound and fury, described by an idiot.
Come, O angels, where only fools fear to tread.
Rush in; rush in and be sanctified by the view.

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