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sometimes i see a red wheelbarrel in my backyard

leaning purposefully against the wall of my shed

with weeds and grass sprouting up around its wheel

and rain water pooling in its rusting basin

and sometimes all i can see is how in 5 years

i've never once taken the wheelbarrel into a garden

and let the dirt cake underneath my fingernails

while i pull the deep weeds from the warm earth