What I Saw:
I saw him, shovel up on his thin
right shoulder,
going to the edge
of the road and then
into the woods. He was alone. No
animal in a bag or bouncing
at or near his patiently lifting over
and around the rocks and frost broke
asphalt.
I saw him and I thought: it’s a good
month before any digging
thaw. What causes a boy
to disappear
into the woods with a shovel?
The socket on his collar
the cutting edge
blade-end down?
Or, seen like this as I drive by:
the back up so if something started,
rain, maybe snow, the bowl
would be another hood, could, if ballast
shifts, take his back in this
or that spot as he rises
and falls all motion all steady self
walking in
to the woods with a shovel
and nothing else.
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