“Three Golden Shovels for the Grave” utilizes the golden shovel format made famous by Terrance Hayes. In this poetic form, the last word in each line forms a quote from another source. In this poem, quotes were taken from a poem by Robert Hass, a line from the 1989 movie Batman, and phrases found on gravestones in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Frances Klein writes at the intersection of disability and gender. She is the author of the chapbooks New and Permanent (Blanket Sea 2022) and The Best Secret (Bottlecap Press 2022). Klein currently serves as assistant editor of Southern Humanities Review.
