Ode to Thee Sweet Bucket Auger - Archaeology in the Trenches

Archaeology sometimes requires digging deep holes in river valley sediments, performed by archaeologists with a bucket auger, a screen and a pit partner. After a while, the bucket auger is all you can think of, and so, one late November day, with all the fondness and revulsion of the best kind, I wrote this poem to my rickety bucket auger.