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    Southpaw: A Matter of Reversal
    Southpaw: A Matter of Reversal
    Southpaw: A Matter of Reversal
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    Southpaw: A Matter of Reversal

    By Adrian Lane

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    In this fresh, open and varied collection, Adrian Lane explores and celebrates life’s reversals and paradoxes. The poems travel through the seasons in a range of hemispheres.

    Adrian Lane is an Anglican minister who teaches Preaching and Pastoral Care at Ridley Melbourne, Australia. Originally trained in Social Work and Psychology,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGinninderra Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781760411763
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      Book preview

      Southpaw - Adrian Lane

      Southpaw

      Southpaw

      Adrian Lane

      Ginninderra Press

      Contents

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Southpaw

      Acknowledgements

      Southpaw: A Matter of Reversal

      ISBN 978 1 76041 176 3

      Copyright © Adrian Lane 2008

      Cover photo (Winter Christmas, Gordon-Conwell, Massachusetts): Adrian Lane

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2008

      Reprinted with revisions 2009

      Reprinted 2016

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      for my parents:

      lovers of life,

      givers of love

      Southpaw

      Left-handers

      We’re a little different – left-handers.

      It’s not just that we wear our watches on the wrong arm

      Or smudge our books

      And so write cacky-handedly.

      It’s not just that scissors and irons make us feel clumsy

      Or the belt’s the wrong way

      And the keys the wrong side.

      We’re always reminded we’re round the wrong way,

      So much that we take it for granted:

      Each time we sit down the knife has to be switched

      And the glasses are set – dare we move them?

      We’re forever a problem for coaches and teachers:

      ‘First try it out right –

      Oh well, I can’t help you.’

      You’re just a bit odd, a bit weird, a bit gauche.

      Clumsy and clunky, you know!

      You can’t buy the clubs

      Or the sticks or the bats

      And no one can teach you to throw!

      Some even say sinister,

      At the wrong hand.

      You can’t even shake on it, right!

      And why are people more afraid of the left

      And of being left out, not right on?

      As though the right’s right

      And the rest are left over,

      Raising the wrong hand,

      Putting the wrong foot forward.

      But we do think differently – it’s true.

      We like languages, music, spaces too.

      We’re creative

      And maybe a mite more sensitive,

      ’Cause we know what it

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