Title: In Your Absence

Author: Kate Camp

In: Sport 16: Autumn 1996

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, March 1996, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 16: Autumn 1996

In Your Absence

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In Your Absence

In your absence
I stubbed out my arm.

Parcelled myself off
to various chaps.

I put the dog’s head in a bucket
and she barked my shin.

I put my head down, received
brief papery epiphanies.

Enjoying a thermos of tea
in the Australian Garden

I thought—this is very fine, and—
no one is coming to rescue me.