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 . . ....