Esemplastic Decay

Treatment, Fry wrote,

Is all. It all

Comes together

Under the trees,

Memories’ mats

Of useless leaves,

Proof, if ever

Proof was needed,

Life loves its waste.

Treatment is all.

Those redolent

Mounds of compost,

These sweet woods’ soils

Do the best work

Now, but middens

And landfills will.