No Superfund site,
raped by greed,
scorch of blight,
but water’s need
clear from given
name, people few,
too hard, been driven
away from view
of hard-cracked earth
to lands of green,
an easier birth.
In beauteous scene
rot can fester,
trees aplunder,
bodies will pester
till all asunder.
Take a place
so fine, so dear,
worry it to grace-
less mess in here.
Celia Turner is a Loveland published poet in Northern Colorado Writers annual anthology and winner of the 2020 Denver Women’s Press Club Unknown Writer’s Contest. She regularly studies poetry, takes workshops and classes. The Grind online practice of a daily poem submitted to a random participating group each month has been a boon. Poetry for her is an ongoing intimate conversation she continues to have with strangers.