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Kate Hargreaves
Kate Hargreaves (aka Pain Eyre) is a writer, book designer and roller-derby skater. She is the author of Talking Derby: Stories from a Life on Eight Wheels and Leak, a collection of poems. She lives in Windsor, Ontario, and helped found the city's roller-derby league, the Border City Brawlers. When she's not working or skating, Kate spends her time cycling with her husband and cuddling with Winn the cat.
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Leak - Kate Hargreaves
LEAK
LEAK
KATE HARGREAVES
BookThug · 2014
FIRST EDITION
copyright © 2014 Kate Hargreaves
cover image: Musculi Colli
by Nadine Leduc
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of The Canada Council for the Arts and The Ontario Arts Council.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Hargreaves, Kate, author
Leak / Kate Hargreaves.
Poems.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77166-068-6
I. Title.
PS8615.A727L42 2014 C811'.6 C2014-904789-4
PRINTED IN CANADA
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Welcome to Kate Hargreaves’ Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyday existence. In Leak, bodies lose pieces and fall apart, while words slip out of place and letters drop away. Emergency room signage becomes incomprehensible, the census requests bodily measurements, a cyclist confuses oil with her own blood. This visceral deconstruction of the body and its multiple representations tests the boundaries of body politics – pathologically, emotionally, and lyrically. pathologically, emotionally, and lyrically.
for Jessie Tetley
Contents
Heap
Chew
Skim
Pore
Chip
Peel
Heap
HEAP
She heaps.
She heaps dirty clothes and dishrags on the stairs.
She heaps her plate with Brussels sprouts.
She heaps her teaspoon with brown sugar, stirs it into oats.
She heaps the compost.
She composts heaps.
She mounds.
She piles.
She piles old newspapers on the bedroom floor.
She plies.
She plies with wool.
She pulls wool over thighs.
She pliés.
She pleas.
She only buys two-ply.
Her nose runs in her sleep.
She rubs the sleep from her eyes.
She thighs in her sleep.
Hives cover her thighs.
She smears calamine on her skin.
Washes ink from her hair.
She lather rinse repeats. She dries.
Piles towels in the tub.
Heaps dress and tights in the sink.
She scrapes her leg.
Scratches. Loses sleep.
Heaps blankets on the floor.
Hives warm.
Nails out.
She seeps.
SPLINTER
Windsor splints me. Splints shins–feet bat-battering asphalt cracks thud thud thwack thwack thwack thwack shoelace plastic tip clipping concrete. thfooooo–exhale fast against damp armpit air. Pause one foot on pavement, other shoe rolling over ants and grass and woodchips two feet from dog shit sizzle in the haze. thhoooo–exhale re-tie loop over around and through, tie the ears together and tap toe towards sneaker end. Stand. Sweat slips between vertebrae, over spine juts like waterfall rocks–slish slide slim. On feet and level with horse heads over sparse hedge over-pruned by ninety-five degree weeks and days, nights of dry roots, brown branches, crisp. Rind warming in racer-back lines, heat-dying Friday afternoon onto shoulders arms and calves. Out and back: laterals around perambulator pushers and camera couples pausing to snap the elephant and her babies. thfoooooo– thfooooooo–hard breaths in time with glitter on the wet streets calves and quads suck blood and O2 from head spinning and concrete clumps cling to clay soles. Windsor sticks to my sneakers, sod, cement, gum, cast-iron eggs and birds catch on my laces. thfooooooo–exhale, and scuff rubber on road, to scrape off stones, cedar chips, Tim Horton’s