Title: Celia’s Sister

Author: Jenny Powell-Chalmers

In: Sport 19: Lightworks

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Celia's Sister

Her sister shivers.
It is nothing the rough
overcoat can help with.
In fact the collar
is rubbing the back of her neck
leaving a slight rash.
The sleeves overlapping
her shaking hands
page 179 hang like sacks. They will hurt
the skin of her fingers,
but the barbed wire crown
does not cut or gouge
and the halo light has numbed
her head, has made Celia's sister
forget who she is.