Burying

A tooth-pick box of

Too slender wickedness

Bursting with pregnancies

Must perforce be preceded

By a disturbance; a violence

Committed against the soil

Titanic back-hoes grunting

Turning it up, and over, and

Splaying earthworms segments 

And cow teeth from ‘round 1931

The year Ted opened Wall Drug

And sheep’s teeth from 1933

When farm foreclosures peaked

And ancient Dinictis kitty-canines

The year they last touched meat

And shark’s teeth from 100 million

Sunsets before J. Christ grimaced

And Tatanka teeth from June 1876

When Custer’s orders stoppered 

In his stem and he got his 

own teeth handed to him

-Thomas E. Simmons