Sport 34: Winter 2006
Handbag
Handbag
Bea's handbag is like a brain with lists in it—
Rothman's
toilet paper
onion x 2
In the kitchen Bea talks to the brain
Where are the bloody keys?
Have you seen my wallet?
It's a black hole in here.
From the brain she has pulled
a gingerbread man,
a plastic duck,
five Real Lace handkerchiefs.
Outside, the world
is having its own conversation—
roots to leaves,
grass to sky,
birds to plain air.