Treated Lumber

Saint Paul, 30 June 2008

Generations of species

perished instantly

others, who weathered

protracted departures

have descendents who

are cheerfully immune

to the killer cocktails

suffused in wood

Exhuming the timber steps

at our elder's homestead

moist, punky, rotten steps

cavitated courtesy of

a heaving, respiring soil

I thump a pick axe to dirt

exhausted, dripping wet

and stunned by naiveté

I remember nature

is a steadfast

recycler