it was a mighty good beer

20091211-DSC_0095, originally uploaded by gservo.

Poem: "Beer Bottle," by Ted Kooser, from Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press).

Beer Bottle

In the burned-
out highway
ditch the throw-

away beer
bottle lands
standing up

unbroken,
like a cat
thrown off

of a roof
to kill it,
landing hard

and dazzled
in the sun
right side up;

sort of a
miracle.