A while back I posted "If Galileo Were a Gardener" after Charles Tomlinson's poem "If Bach Had Been a Beekeeper." I wrote a series of poems in this vein, and from time to time they will crop up. Today is such a day.
If Dickens Were a Ditch Digger
after Charles Tomlinson
If Dickens were a ditch digger
he would have shoveled the muck
of London, manure and mud clinging
to his clothes, as he uncovered a child's
broken crutch or exposed a tattered
piece of wedding veil beneath layers
of earth harboring ghostly reminders
of splintered lives while pesky
young pickpockets marked others
as he worked, quietly mulling over
his finds and shaping tales to entertain
his children at home, mesmerize
his mates at the pub.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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