It can be seen on any front lawn
without the weekly firing of 2-stroke john deer engines
or the dandelions getting their glyphosate treatments
as they soon become overshadowed by Elms that grow above
red clay and mortar that make up building structures
are soon split apart
by thin vines that climb them
choked to bits
as they fall back to the soil below
roads of asphalt begin to break
as the rivers widen year after year
exposing the rebar edged cliffs
as they too
rust away to nothing
the monoliths of concrete that hold back streams
give way to the persistence
and resilience
of the rivers
allowing natures paintbrush to stroke
once again
replenishing
the Gila,
the Colorado
the Salmon