Drawing 1

  • Crushed
  • feet
  • chest
  • hips

6 maybe 12 bones unbroken

Drawing 3

  • and these men
  • like him
  • Half the time afraid and
  • always Underpaid

Drawing 4

  • Knowing where they are
  • & where they'll always be

Drawing 5

  • Coming around
  • the screaming dark

Drawing 6

  • the black dust settling in his lungs
  • the slow swell of pain
  • Size
  • Price

He thinks about his son suckling at his wifes breast

  • the children yet to come
  • A panic crushes him
  • knowing all the pain to come
  • both in this hole and out of it