spring composition

Compose.

Compose beds

of much-scribbled,

eraser-rubbed

lined notebook paper

mixed with soil

in your spring garden,

food for bulbs.

Compost

your failed compositions

rather than ripping

balling

pitching them

in the recycling bin.

Let your discarded words,

disheveled

like soiled linens,

mulch your beds

and witness their blooming.

Compose.

The first two lines of this poem are the first line of "Sacred Emily" by Getrude Stein. This is poem eight of 30 for National Poetry Month!