Title: Sport 40: 2012

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2014, Wellington

Part of: Sport

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Sport 40: 2012

Aleksandra Lane

page 138

Aleksandra Lane

Earrings

Record the raindrops, miss, the toppling
sun, record your short time pacing by.

I welcome the new assistant, pearl eared, but beady-eyed.
She is so purple towards the evening, I’m not sure if it’s my
flickering about, or her inventive plainness.

Record this, miss. Make sure the letter is sent out, this century
shall not wait forever. And then do

take off your pearls, I cannot work and look at them white
and lascivious like that.

The coming of age of aluminium

Oakland, 25 October 2011

Everyone is on Google today, the aliens
are coming. Ask me if I care
as we occupy downtown Auckland.

Meanwhile, CBS settles on the capitol:
the great civilising potency
of the new metal.

You are an extraordinary immigrant,
says the president, broadcasting white noise terminating with flash-bang canisters.

page 139

Frog hunt

Now I am compliant,
complicit, scholarly.

Willow trees excepted, it was still.
Little by little, you teach your autumn to catch flies, then the flies
flit away.

I am a small boy
and I am resonant: made
a fishhook out of wire and spite
while the day went on with laughter and elsewhere
adventures. A fishhook that gleamed

like water and lull. I am slim,
my mother is an engineer, my father is a priest.
We could not grow rice, frogs or willow leaves.

I am a small boy inventing things.