Sawhorse : Middle Creek Publishing & Audio : 9780997420098 : 099742009X : 06 May 2017 : Sawhorse, the title of Tony Burfield's latest chapbook, comes from an expressive allusion in the poem of the same name; "Ripping apart an old pallet for sawhorse wood. The potentiality of sawhorse."Sawhorse spans a year of newness, a marriage, a new house and a new sense of place as the poet embeds himself in the grounding process of work. The honest work of a homeowner, a landowner, a husband, a poet. This is the rurality of rediscovering the self in relationship to each other and to the land; the self as the story of place. The poems comprising Sawhorse are rural, contemplative . . . simple, but not trite . . . and yet, Burfield is not putting on any airs, there are no claims to any mystic insight but for the simple newlywed sense of distracted joy, cramping muscles and newly calloused hands. Burfield's dialect is distinct to the American mountain west. His prose poems are often clipped sentences,