February 5, 2011

THERE IS A NEW SCAVENGER


There is a new scavenger
on 15th street
A woman
the garbage piles are not higher
or of a better composition
Yet there is a new scavenger
on my street
I see her in the mornings
poking slowly with a stick
her sack half full, half rotted
What can it mean
I ask
And pass her by
My heart secure behind a handkerchief

                                             - Lorena Barros 
1968














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