Title: All over the earth

Author: Lynn Davidson

In: Sport 39: 2011

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2013, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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All over the earth

Everything leads up to your heavy head.

I put my hands one each side of your round face
and tip it towards me.
You have got so tall since I saw you in Istanbul
in that yellow field.           I say

you remind me of summer

                       you say

everyone says that

and smile crinkling up your black eyes.

After a short conversation
you say I have to go

and go.

From the back you seem vulnerable.

Tall for a girl.

           Now you can reach everything
           and are more grown up then you’ll ever be again.

I can’t help thinking
that you are like a princess in a story

page 243            poised.

Your big, beautiful, weighty head above the crowd
looking slowly and searchingly

           East           West

                 East           West