Sport 41: 2013
Emma Barnes — All the way through
Emma Barnes
All the way through
It’s easy to say when you’ve had enough
you take the compost out the back and
let the garden eat itself in the chilly of the valley
it is never warmer you always see breath
sometimes it is the houses breathing
and sometimes you’ve had enough
and your blood sugar falls down the
hill and your voice comes out of a stone
instead of a mountain dulcimer made with a bent
fork on the back deck by a man who is golden
all the way through but the birds sing
and the cats dig into the hillside and
pull out mice with their teeth and you smash
a glass on the back step but you are not
quite gone and mushrooms grow over
your body here one day then rotted the
next they are mostly water and you are
mostly woman.