Fifty

by Erin Wilson

~after Raymond Souster’s “Six-Quart Basket”

You notice
the metal bowl
maybe once a lid to something

Probably fallen from a truck
to the ditch
on the way to the garbage dump

You notice
the metal bowl
maybe iron

What is that substance?
you’ve not touched it
but in years gone by touched a like substance

You notice
the metal bowl
misshapen, rusted

Days later
you’re still noticing
that metal bowl

Your mind lights up
searching for a use
for such an old bent thing

— from Juniper Volume 4, Issue 2