Sunday, November 9, 2025

Turning Over Parts of Poems with a Golden Shovel - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Turning Over Parts of Poems with a Golden Shovel

 

A golden shovel poem                        well, okay, maybe

Or maybe it’s like                              digging up a friend

Rearranging his bits                          rearranging his bones

And exclaiming                                  I have built a new body!

 

Maybe

 

A pile of bones there                          a pile of bones here

Another pile of bones                        a golden shovel

Ars per ars                                        gizzards and gristle

The gravedigger wants                       his shovel back

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Turning Over Parts of Poems with a Golden Shovel - poem

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