Title: Lines

Author: James McNaughton

In: Sport 23: Spring 1999

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, November 1999

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 23: Spring 1999

Lines

page 167

Lines

The wind means something
to lavender. A blues riff doesn't.

Between scones and black forest
gateau stretches a tightrope.

You try to make the main course, you make
a meal of your life. I'd like

a grant to spend at least five
minutes on every park bench in New Zealand.

I could sleep under the moon's continuous
poem, find lines like

money in the street,
throw them away in the morning.

If you gave me anything
I'd keep it.