By TJ Holland
Date: 9 December 2000

That Grave Was Mine

I know this
I've worked that shift
And shifted in the grave.
Like a mother works her worried hands
For the child not yet home
I worked it.
I've dug up the road
And shoveled miles
To drop me in the graveyard
I've steered that spade.

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