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Sport 41: 2013

Emma Barnes — All the way through

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Emma Barnes

All the way through

It’s easy to say            when you’ve had enough
you take the compost      out the back and

      let the garden eat itself    in the chilly of the valley
      it is never warmer        you always see breath

sometimes it is           the houses breathing
and sometimes           you’ve had enough

      and your blood           sugar falls down the
      hill and your voice        comes out of a stone

instead of a mountain       dulcimer made with a bent
fork on the back deck       by a man who is golden

      all the way through       but the birds sing
      and the cats dig          into the hillside and

pull out mice with their      teeth and you smash
a glass on the back        step but you are not

      quite gone and           mushrooms grow over
      your body here           one day then rotted the

next they are mostly        water and you are
mostly                    woman.