Excavation

What can never be buried

Creation is a paradoxical creature, both reflexive and demanding of discipline, and the more work we put into molding something, the more determined it seems to become its own self-thing. If you’re like me, that makes you more excited to keep digging. Curiosity doesn’t much get its due in adulthood. Would you agree? That’s why we’re such good friends. Let’s see what we can unearth together.


 

Sara Fitzpatrick works in animal welfare, overseeing the teams who manage volunteers and fosters for the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society. You can read a review of her debut collection in Rhino Poetry.