A Good Fence
Sound of a shovel nicking dirt.
Voices of labourers
sinking posts into wet cement.
Sibilance of aspens in the wind.
Soft-spoken voices speaking
Spanish under soft-spoken aspens.
Shriek of a chainsaw ripping wood.
Clang of a hammer striking nails.
Shovel thunk against aspen suckers.
Report of a stapler fixing wire.
Laughter bubbling like water
down a bed of loaf-shaped boulders.
Sound of a gate bolt shot.
Sound of a tailgate dropped.
Sigh of the gathered up tools.