Floppy Hose Wraps

Floppy hose wraps
Rubber, spins
‘Round the living tree, sick and
More since hosting a noose
For the neighborhood,
Feeds the barren development site.

In long sleeping lines the re-bars await
On the shadows of a bottomless pit.
Back hoes sleep
A raindrop
Topples
Onto their apathetic
Windshield.

Coming down from the hill,
From the suburbs, comes the developer
His pocket empty
To the field of dollar signs.
Empty poles on a highway
Attach the back hoe to his sleep.

c. 2008 Graciella Radici

(GL Contributor Graziella Radici resides in the Greater Carroll Gardens/Gowanus Metroplex.)