Title: Fair Copy

Author: Michael Krüger

In: Sport 40: 2012

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2014, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Fair Copy

We reconstructed my childhood
with unremarkable things.
A pine cone, bread crumbs,
keys, a black-veined stone,
anything to hand and portable.
Just that things have a tendency
o act as they see fit,
and the course I wanted to steer
keeps veering forward and back.
I can see what I no longer am,
but I cannot see me.
An apple rolls sadly from the table
and breaks as words break
when one no longer uses them.
Leave it to the birds to
fair-copy this scrawl, on them
one can rely.