Saturday, 13 October 2012

New Digging




The meadow is damp; footfall leaves the sign of its passing.

Above, the sky begins to clear.

But below the ground is still hard from the summer’s droughts.

The pickaxe swings in the October air and tears the grass dragging it to one side.

A root is exposed, severed and the dry earth crumbles under the cold steel.

Grass, root and earth are damaged.

Life ebbs.

Another grave.

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