This Poem was Submitted By: Sandra J Kelley On Date: 2002-02-03 11:19:50 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Danny; twenty years later

In heavy mist workers in thick brown gloves lift shovels of earth in a steady rhythm. They open hermetically sealed bags of  orange clay not native to this state, spill two inches worth into each hole. When they have moved off a way, I stoop lift a lump of it into my hands it has been not long enough-or, too long- since I took my first steps in this sticky stuff. The workers now lift small pines from the bed of a borrowed state highway truck stand them in the holes and cover their roots in more clay.  I watched years ago when  they buried you, and I know what these earnest gardeners do not. These trees will not grow here only, take a long time dying.

Copyright © February 2002 Sandra J Kelley


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