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| Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters |
In the pantheon of suburbia
they are gods and goddesses of fringe gleanings
Holy mothers to thin coats, visible ribs
counting down the coughs echoing through their kids
Older brother immortals fixing mac&cheese dinners
fighting off sleep until they hear the click of mom’s key
Baby sister creators crawling through barbed wire
carefully molding dolls out of landfill castaways
Father God is off-continent
wires funds in spare change
Father God is unknown
a photo in a phone
Father God is imprisoned
calls collect once a weekend
Father God is dead
imagine him in greener pastures
Image from Ariel Min, "In world’s poorest slums, landfills and polluted rivers become a child’s playground," PBS News Hour (Feb 12, 2015)
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