Sport 33: Spring 2005
Woolshed Blues
Woolshed Blues
Tally-marks on
the woolshed door—
the stuff that can't be said,
he said—
the things we can't undo:
when the shearer sliced
the hamstring
of my wife's angora goat
he said—
I blazed my knife
across its throat
and swore
it wasn't true