Plastic Grocery Bag

Is the tumbleweed of the urban landscape

and sometimes

an undulating jellyfish in a sea of trees

Reviews

[Angi]

Rutherford, this piece is brilliant. I adore relevant poetry about mundane things that most people overlook. The imagery had me out in the old west, floating in a crystal sea and climbing trees. No one (lately) has had me travelling so extensively in three short lines. Well done! Angi~

[MoriartyMesa]

For some reason my mind thinks of



1984





should i be wrong?

[rutherford]

Whatever it makes you think of is correct. I can't see any of it being wrong. Thanks for reading.

[Michael G. Smith]

Fantastic! A favorite with bitter told truth.

[Michael G. Smith]

Reminds of my poem Isolation Keeps in that our style of approach is similar.

[Pryde Foltz]

Nice!!!! Another great one.

[Tam Warink]

Hmm, I guess I got it wrong. I saw that plastic grocery bag as the urban tumbleweed, blowing in a random wind, landing in a drainage causeway, eventually floating out to sea, joining with the ever-growing forest of flotsam and jetsam littering the worlds oceans; perhaps there to be mistaken for that undulating jellyfish.

[lee von cleef]

placed high by wind and water
on branches too hard to reach
our canoes slide quiet below
marking a rock or two as we
miss the flow.

[Rita L. Sev]

I like that the title is part of the piece; that plastic bag is so much more than meets the eye (as so many things are...) Well done.