Hi Patrick,
The bicycle is for the gravedigger, as he finishes up one grave and goes on
to the next. If there is a next, I guess, on a given day. My husband says
the burial didn't happen all at once, at least in the old days--planks were
laid across the grave after the casket was lowered, then branches from a fir
tree. Later the gravedigger came back and filled up the chasm. Cheers!
What did your granddad's iron spear look like?
Thanks for the kind words,
Rachel
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> Thanks Rachel was very interested in bicycle from grave to
> grave was that for the officiant not the mourners -how many
> friends does one bury at a time
>
> My grandad used to have a very usefull 'iron spear' a lethal
> thing to drop on feet -disappeared over the years not seen
> another good for getting at tree roots Enjoyed form of the
> poem Cheers P old P
>
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>
> If you're so inclined, one of my poems from the new issue of
> New American Writing is at Poetry Daily today, and afterwards
> for a year in the archives:
>
> http://www.poems.com/
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>
> How to get a copy (from the editors, Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover):
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> New American Writing 24 (2006) has just been published and
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> The 220 page issue contains a generous Nathaniel Mackey
> feature including "The Atmosphere is Alive," an interview
> with the poet by Sarah Rosenthal and a representative
> selection of his poetry and prose.
>
> Also featured are translations of the poetry of Pura
> Lopez-Colome (Jason Stumpf), Pablo Neruda (Clayton Eshleman),
> Aase Berg (Johannes Gorranson), Vladimir Holan Josef Horacek
> & Lara Glenum), Yang Jian (Wang Ping and Alex Lemon), Yao
> Feng (Christopher Kelen), Eugenio Montejo (Kirk Nesset), and
> eight poems of Nguyen Trai, 1380-1442, one of Vietnam's
> greatest poets (Nguyen Do & Paul Hoover).
>
> As always, poetry in electrifying English: Pierre Joris,
> Rosmarie Waldrop, Clayton Eshleman, Mac Wellman, Karen
> Garthe, Martine Bellen, Rusty Morrison, Joanna Klink, Edward
> Smallfield, Joseph Lease, Brian Teare, Diane Newman, G.C.
> Waldrep, John Olson, Campbell McGrath, Devin Johnston, Lisa
> Isaacson, Ethan Paquin, Douglas Messerli, Caroline Knox,
> Rachel Loden, Terence Winch, Todd Swift, Patrick Pritchett,
> Craig Watson, Stephen Vincent, Fred Marchant, Valerie
> Coulton, Maged Zaher, Carol Ciavonne, Sandra Park, Curtis
> Bonney, George Kalamaras, Daneen Wardrop, Katie Degentesh,
> Michael Magee, Sharon Mesmer, Susan Maxwell, Barbara Jane
> Reyes, Susen James, Noelle Kocot, Chad Faries, Nathan Hauke,
> John Sakkis, Daniel Tiffany, Max Winter, James Meetze, Lori
> Shine, and Andrew Early.
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