Rodney Nelson: "Hurry To Do"

green had made a differing of sky and earth

and when it went the pavement returned to rock

matching the cold gray above

                     all memory

of wood and leaf scent dried into a spice that

north wind could not activate or became a

nut with ground hardening over the churchyard

plots

                     interring the two the so-young man and

woman would not have gotten easier had

to do the dig now in a storm coat

                     might be

no one around to bury their grandchildren