Grief

    Miner Mohammad Ismail digs in a coal mine in Choa Saidan Shah, Punjab province

 

GRIEF

Grief hollows

   excavates with

sparking picks

    and groans

of spent marl turned

   tear-made mud

 heaped heavy

    on blistering spades 

    – 3/24/19


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