The Junkman's Daughter Has Everything She Needs. Plus Postcard winner announcement!

Kristen Lenea Ryberg

The Junkman’s Daughter Has Everything She Needs

Tin cans trim her flowerbeds watered with upside-down milk jugs
old pans mound with discarded dish-ware.
Toward the back runs the grass-middled drive
where her father left the old stove, parked his last Ford 
a neighbor needed its blue door.
Last week she wheelbarrowed a yellow tailgate to the barn, red-brushed  
a sign, I might have something you need.
The old tub sits off the back porch, for summertime soaks 
after pulling weeds in the wild garden of cress, lettuce, crookneck
and herbs for the body, herbs for the pot.
The meadows green and stream stays cold. 
She is not young
she is not old
she is in the middle of repurposing.

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