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Dumpster-Diving Deity
Dumpster-Diving Deity
By Mark D. Stucky
Dirty, broken, and forgotten,
discarded as worthless junk
at garage sales and trash collections,
were treasures I have rescued.
Where others saw rubbish,
the eye of this beholder
saw creative potential.
After repairing, cleaning,
and polishing or painting,
the old items were resurrected
into new lives and new homes
with myself and others.
Likewise, the Word-made-flesh dumpster-dove
into the bloody wreckage of our world,
to rescue us from our garbage heaps,
repair our hopeless brokenness,
scrub our grimy hearts,
polish our potential,
and find us forever homes
within divine community
in this world and the next.
(First published in Calla Press, 25 May 2022. See also my poems “Broken Beauty,” “Purgatorial Perceptions,” “God Around the Corner,” and “Quantum Spiritualities.”)
(Image collage from images by Pexels and Noupload on Pixabay.com.)
Copyright ©
Mark Stucky
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