Grave Digger

Substance of chalk, honeycombed hollow, 

once hallowed scaffold.

Submerged, merged, mingling
of flesh under seal of earth and night -
Day brings horror, sun bleached, scored and shaven.

What Primary force designed this
grotesque puppetry, who cut the strings?
Somnambulant dancer through drifts of mist - 

disembodied fragility, in all its cracking, tentative beauty.