Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Recycle Bin Baby

"...unforgiving Canadian winter..."

Recycle Bin Baby

froze to death
in Saskatoon
during the unforgiving
Canadian winter
after the mother
dumped her baby in
a recycle bin
right there on the
street.

There is nothing
else to say.

No poem.
No longer any
baby.






Article © Ryan Quinn Flanagan. All rights reserved.
Published in the November 2, 2020 issue .
Image(s) © Sand Pilarski. All rights reserved.
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