28 December 2005

history class dig

bad timing 
line of bush 
the only place 
a lurk could be 
hiding 

where i watch 
your chances 
taken 
one by one 

and now youve 
brought the kids 
along 
with tiny spades 
appropriately 

digging up 
the past 
the secrets 

careful what 
you dig . 

a glimpse 
of ghostly 
perspective 
perhaps 

demanding to explain 
to kids .. 

the moon and 
mowing scythe 
looming 
these things 
never leave 
you know 

mortality 
uncovered 
evening sun 
dwindling  

hard to see 
or look at 
easy to conceive 
this wicked world  
the devils world .. 
you brought 
the kids to  

well 
good thing  
youre a teacher