Fork
not the kind you eat with
but useful to turn the soil
root out potatoes or carrots
or anything that likes to lurk
beneath the earth schlupp
sturdy tines slide into soil
its wooden handle heats up
in your hand, swopping
kinetic energy between us
Colin Pink co-chairs the Barnes & Chiswick Poetry Stanza. His poems have appeared in a wide range of magazines and four collections, most recently Typicity and Wreck of the Jeanne Gougy. He posts on Instagram @colinpinkpoet