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.
Back to the Heart-on-Sleeve Corner