In a Summer Farmhouse Sink
the scrap container coffee can awaits
its daily commute to compost, brimming with
strawberry hulls
cucumber peels
bell pepper seeds
tomato top-slices
buttered peach bread crumbs
slathered with local honey
coffee grounds
spent egg shells
olive, mint green, tinted blue, brown
celery leaves
carrot tops
severed pulpy peach pits
boiled egg crumbles
bacon bits
mayonnaise globs
floor-dropped chicken chunks
that survived the dogs
cantaloupe rinds
potato shavings
fleshy peach skins
squeezed lemon remnants
sunflower stems
scissored chives
withered blueberries
nothing wasted
all ripe with promise and sustaining purpose