SECTION 3
The next day,/after school,/we didn’t feel like leaving soon.//
“I hate them/being thrown out like garbage.”//
“What can we do?”//
“Pounded animal bones can be used as fertilizer.”//
“Who would eat vegetables grown/with bone fertilizer?”//
“What about flowers?”//
This is how/five of us started the “Flowers from Life” project.//
In April of our final year,/two sacks of bones arrived.//
It was hard to break them.//
Trowels didn’t work,/so we used bricks.//
Day after day/we continued in silence.//
“Crushing the bones of dead dogs....//
What are we doing?!”//
Three weeks later,/we had enough fertilizer/and planted marigold seeds.//
We hoped our “flowers from life” would bloom!//