The Figurative Committee
make the most of their own
sod-breaking, warning me

of hearing a cliché
as it clanks, especially about
growing older and

digging frosts – the vegetable
patch completely dug
getting an enforced embargo

[that one too about to be
a spade-end on a stone like…
excised, being heard],

advising how to use the
ordinariness of getting older
without calling it an idea.