to dig deep. [day 24]

    the ground is hard
      but it is good.

   so when the blade
   will not bite, I trust

         the ground
       is good. I trust

    tomorrow’s rain will
 with nimble fingers undo

      its knots and I trust
         below the soil
 
             it is kind—
        kind as worms.

    
        this is why I do
            not drop
          this shovel.