Tulips #2

Empty milk bottles, an empty wine bottle
   and a salad dressing bottle...
      filled with water and white tulips --
         whose time will soon be past.

There is a dead spider in a milk bottle.
   I remember those milk bottles
      being left on the back porch, filled with milk.
         How it was...

Contemporary life has changed.
We drive to the Stop N Shop to get our milk
   in plastic jugs (#2 recyclable).
And glass milk bottles are the stuff of collectors
   and flea marketers.

They hold tulips well.

~ April 21, 1991 in the Calumet