Title: Rope

Author: Maria McMillan

In: Sport 41: 2013

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2014, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 41: 2013

Rope

page 19

Rope

The only thing I can possibly do
is stay here forever, hanging
on with both hands, not ever

doing the next thing. I will
find a way to loop the rope
around me so when I sleep

I will not fall. Warm clothes
will be delivered.
Blimey. The wind is everywhere.

Most things live suspended
in matter as dense as itself.
We sink to the bottom like

weighted divers.
The perfect twist.
The nest of sleeping mice.

I’m still. I must move
all my muscles in the same
moment to be this still.

I think of the rope.
The rope disappears.