Title: Wildlife at Home

Author: Jenny Bornholdt

In: Sport 29: Spring 2002

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, October 2002

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 29: Spring 2002

Wildlife at Home

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Wildlife at Home

Say yes to lunch
and it's as easy as walking
to Italy. Take the track
by the train line, left
to the end
of the nameless street. To
a garden. To a house. To a
garden, where a big stone table
stands under magnolia.
Lunch then ping pong or
the other way around. Ducks,
visiting pheasant, a Scottish piper
flown in arrives too drunk
to play, except perhaps the reel.
Is my mother all right? I don't
know. How do you figure
loss? Nets for leaves, boys build
a home for Harvey. We'd like one
too. One that would contain all this,
built by the pond
where bright frogs make sounds
much larger than themselves.