Title: Floating

Author: Dinah Hawken

In: Sport 10: Autumn 1993

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, May 1993, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 10: Autumn 1993

Floating

page 43

Floating

The lake is never like glass. It has a soft
top that will always let you in.

It will hold your confident body in its satin hammock.
O let your body be

in ancestral hands. Forget their treachery.
It takes so little—just a flutter

of your arms and legs to lie in splendour

being purely who you are already
preventing death in a state of grace

water      fire      earth       air
a state of grace preventing death