An Earnest Paradise
or just plain Ernie, our excavator who
chews tobacco. Choose to back
hoe? Exactly. His levered arm digs
down any hole, his thumb is attached
to the bucket. Cross an archeologist with
a toothbrush and a helicopter pilot with
a wrecking ball: that’s him. Down from Drummondville
where they play music with spoons. Raising three
girls alone is harder than trench work. The fill is far from
clean, full of roots, old pipes & broken bottles –the past is
always just underfoot. But he knows, as he uncovers the importance
of
simply
being.