Thicket by Anna Jackson

Author:Anna Jackson [Jackson, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

GIVING UP

It is the room I want, room

to deny myself, the spaciousness

of humility, not the empty air

of the scrambling vines

but the rich earth

where the potato digs down.

There in the dark there is all the room

you need to go nowhere at all.

No, I couldn’t believe harder

in scrambling after nothing

at all but staying still, if only

the scrambling upwards

wasn’t so much fun,

putting out the leaves, feeling

for the next hold

to haul the whole self

upwards with –

what a lark!

The potato has eyes

but the sprout isn’t shouting

look at me,

just heading up

for the – for headiness is all.

I’m giving up humility.

I’ll throw it away

to be a scrambling vine.

For sure, at the end

of it all, the potato

will be saved,

the vine returned

to the earth –

well, I’ll have my room then,

I’ll welcome the worms in.

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