After William Carlos Williams’ The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
on the
gas-guzzling
monster
who collects the shit
we don’t want
anymore
steel jaws
snarfing down
castaways
snaking through
narrow streets
orphan remnants remain
napping next to the
zinnias
Ellen Skilton is a professor of education whose publications have appeared in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Curriculum Inquiry, and Rebelle Society. She is in the first year of an MFA Program in Creative Writing at Arcadia University. She is a chocolate snob, a swimmer, and lives in Philadelphia.