Our shed contains many kinds of shovels: flat, scoop, edger,
garden, gravel, grabber, trench, trowel, even a pizza peel.
The most important one is the curved steel round-point digger
with a sturdy solid wood handle that has survived the decades
and serves its practical purpose every time we must dig deep to drop
dead dandies of dear pets into their final resting places in the yard
or gently to lower the collected cadavers of our diminishing clan.