What is Past

posted February 9, 2025

enough
to bury it gently
and leave it to compost
enough—to wait out

the slow cleaning
only dirt can do

enough
to find a small family
of mice
have birthed themselves
from muck

vegetable ends
and former skins

changed
in the shadow
of a plum tree
unobserved

to this warm and teeming
substrate of belonging