12: TEST MATCH

Jayne Fenton Keane: toen | tone

look at
how still you are
with
afternoon standing
inside your legs

are you fishing
or playing golf

does your toddler
remember when you were
a teenager

in the distance
trucks drive past
full of cows

your hand in your hair
staring
in the shores
of a storm

water
over thoughts
land in
nothingness

what gift
does the nothingness
offer

look at how still you are

Jayne Fenton Keane is the author of two poetry books, 'Torn' (Plateau Press 2000) and 'Ophelia's Codpiece' (Post Pressed, 2002), with another due for release in 2003. Check out JFK's website at www.poetinresidence.com.