Sport 2: Autumn 1989
V
V.
He is gone.
Noel is gone
and I am in terror of these waves
He was just there
on the deck
between Missy and Mother —
then the water breaking over us;
everything swept about
and Noel
gone
we wouldn't have been out
but mother said
Noel needed arrowroot
and we must fetch it
from the Surgeon