Potential Titles: Shovel

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Here to shovel out the silence - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

Shovels dusty in our hands - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

Out of the barrow he shovels the tan - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Shoveling muddy snow or heaving ice - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

With a field's sense of shovels - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Pried from the earth with shovels of grief - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"

Two shovels for hardpan and splintering - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"

That narrows us all into a shovel of dirt - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Turning sods with silver shovel - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

A hundred sullen shovels claw and heave - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"

The shovel is brother to the gun - Carl Sandburg "Iron"

Where the hammers and shovels sleep in corners - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"


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