Title: The Word

Author: Sue Matthew

In: Sport 24: Summer 2000

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, March 2000

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Prose Literature

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Sport 24: Summer 2000

The Word

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The Word

The word is shining like water,
round and smooth as a marble.

The word burrs on your socks like a bidi-bid,
makes you cry like an onion.

The word in your hand,
the word in your mouth.

The word given back after a long borrow.
The word like the smell of mown grass,
used and never used up.

Soaking up water.
Wrapped about us
in the night like a prayer.
Bold and determined as a train.

The pages of old love letters are tucked into small envelopes.
People who are now dust are speaking,
using the word as it is written.

It will do us.
We do what we can with the word.