ONLINE BONUS: The Trash Truck

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.