Poetry by Lee Potts : Roadside Picnic

Roadside Picnic

if the seeds
of glass sown
beside highways
once wrecks
are trucked away
weren’t so sharp (and if
they would actually grow)
a new weed with brittle
petals could
sprout and cup
honeyed wine
for us to share
and suddenly drunk
we would see
that all the glass
in the world will 
break back down
to sand again
someday


Bio: Lee Potts is the author of the chapbook And Drought Will Follow and is poetry editor at Barren Magazine. His work has appeared in Rust + Moth, Whale Road Review, UCity Review, Parentheses Journal, Firmament, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He lives just outside of Philadelphia. He’s @LeePottsPoet on Twitter.