What the Gravedigger Needs

                    Teuva, Finland

overalls

rubber boots

leather gloves

iron spear to loosen up the frozen ground

lantern

spade

length of rope

board to prevent mourners falling in

bicycle to go from grave to grave

Rachel Loden
New American Writing
Number 24, 2006

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