Title: Large Heart Fatal

Author: Kate Camp

In: Sport 17: Spring 1996

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, November 1996, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 17: Spring 1996

Large Heart Fatal

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Large Heart Fatal

History shows
that people with an abnormally large heart
are prone to sudden cardiac arrests.

In the cool night
dogs bark in tune,
cicadas are dead quiet.

A free budgie
is lighthearted;
unlikely to survive the winter.

I think of drawing curtains
though it will take more than dawn
to wake me up.