City Pastoral
Garbage trucks
Groaning
Garbage cans
Banging
Car alarms
Sounding off
Noisy pushy
Birds
Waking me at
Dawn
With their
Smartass songs
Notes:
This poem was previously published in Locuspoint (2007) and is reprinted here by permission of William J. Harris. It is part of the portfolio “I Hope You Like Being Here with Me: The Work of William J. Harris,” curated by Howard Rambsy II.
Source:
Poetry
(February 2023)
