Title: meteorite

Author: Jan Wagner

In: Sport 40: 2012

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2014, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 40: 2012

meteorite

page 207

meteorite

in your garden, perhaps,
between the tomato vines
and the carrots, just as
you’re getting the coffee on

and recalling the farmer who ran
outside, hearing a burglar,
to stare out through a hole in the roof of his barn
into the circle of an older

flashlight, the verger who instead
of daffodils
discovered a lump of black, a foundling left
on the threshold with the chuckle

of youthful heavens deep inside it,
cattle lowing in pain in the dawn,
the milk gone sour, a man coming out
of a café to find a ton

of scrap-metal his car-key still fits—
or that it was always the beginning
of some cult, or the moment the plague sets
n, on a monday morning

when the neighbour’s dog suddenly
starts to bark and you go to the door
somewhat older, but hardly
old, and no place else but here.