Title: Sport 21: Spring 1998

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, October 1998, Wellington

Part of: Sport

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Sport 21: Spring 1998

Keeping Your Nerve at Bitching

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Keeping Your Nerve at Bitching

It's easy to botch up bitching.
It's easy to let it slide.
Some say it's lady-like,
some say it's not,
so I suppose I need to decide

if it matters a fig to me
what others actually say;
what I believe in
is gentleness, & gentleness
loves to play

on a surface of firmness
and firmness on a layer of strength,
while the 3 working together
make a poem — or a lake — or a life
of a singular breadth and length.