The Shop-Vac
Motorized cylinder on wheels
hose and nozzle
extend like an elephant’s trunk
suck up remodeling debris
Like a tornado
safe inside a snow globe
it keeps me from drowning in dust
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Boulder Creek
This Santa Cruz Mountains town
attracts all kinds
including me once
Twenty-five years ago
I was planted in this place
watered in a Redwood rainforest
where I grew sturdy and eternal
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