Garbage
by A.M. Donovan
Old dreams discarded
By the roadside
Amongst old fast food wrappers
Beer bottles, and dead animals
Dreams
Broken by the world
A world in which
They couldn’t survive
Or abandoned, like a puppy
To ridicule and shame
Outgrown, outmoded, thrown away
Some will come back, briefly
Into vogue
Like patriotism, and faith
Or– lets whisper– God
Then we dig, frantically
Through the detritus of our lives
Trying to find
The newly realized treasure
A.M. Donovan is a writer, a folklorist (teaching classes part time at a local community college) and a very good cook. The folklore does tend to show up in the writing. “Garbage” originally appeared in the 2nd Annual Northwoods Anthology.
