Sport 32: Summer 2004
Artefact Incognito
Artefact Incognito
Sandstone or steel,
the gallery cannot display you.
It would need to
strengthen the floor
and reconfigure the ceiling.
Explain why you are no
tailor's dummy
or cinematic prop.
Clothe you.
Anticipate your sudden wish
to return to base
on a public holiday,
when the articulated lorry
and flashing lights
are not available.
Who cares?
You weren't wrenched
from a desert dune
for finger nibbling.
Try higher ground,
alpine flowers,
your head and shoulders
above the mist,
above the wind
blown macrocapa
and dutiful pine,
paws in the soil,
tawny limbs flexed,
magnificent chest mobile,
because every breath counts,
heart or no heart.