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Instructions for the Excavator

for my father

When you bury a horse

for a neighbor, bring the backhoe

over, dig a trench, tip her in—

the daughter crying by her mother—

when you find her stiff in her stall,

you will have to break her legs

so she will fit.

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When you dig a basement

ten feet deep, push away topsoil

to reach into clay and scrape

the scoop across a boulder.

Send your brother in to measure;

aim the laser, read a quarter-inch

too shallow. Pound the stone,

over and over—buckets are strong,

excavator’s arms won’t fracture—

pound the stone, and wait for it

to crack.