Sport 14: Autumn 1995
2. Visiting
2. Visiting
The house is a set of gates,
people-gates
and you sit uneasy
in your chair
squashed by clothes
in a shrunken body.
You have other companions:
glass of water
and a tissue
and us
cross-legged on the floor
in the white-curtained room.
The children wander
with teddy-bear eyes
lost in the legs of visitors.
You say that word
you say Cancer
and it comes out of your mouth
like a black-glassed friend,
another companion to perch on your arm.