To Do This Thing
To do this to such a thing
that was, this morning, so fine a thing
so red and real a thing, so running free
a thing
to do this thing to such a thing
so that now, this evening, it is no more
a thing than a mud-mangled thing
bedraggled thing its eyes popped out
as if on springs a cartoon thing a wrecked
and torn and bone-broken thing its entrails
trailing as the thing is held up bowel hanging
out like a string of chipolata things
From a sunning itself thing
russet light-catching thing young-rearing thing
to a red running thing over-blown worn down
chased to ground thing
eyes on stalks heart thrown to the dogs
that was, this morning, so fine a thing
so red and real a thing, so running free
a thing
to do this thing to such a thing
so that now, this evening, it is no more
a thing than a mud-mangled thing
bedraggled thing its eyes popped out
as if on springs a cartoon thing a wrecked
and torn and bone-broken thing its entrails
trailing as the thing is held up bowel hanging
out like a string of chipolata things
From a sunning itself thing
russet light-catching thing young-rearing thing
to a red running thing over-blown worn down
chased to ground thing
eyes on stalks heart thrown to the dogs
Fiona Owen is the author of Imagining the Full Hundred and O My Swan. She also co-writes and performs music with Gorwel Owen, and teaches Literature, Humanities and Creative Writing for the Open University.
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