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Author(s) -
Michelle Dicinoski
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
m/c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1441-2616
DOI - 10.5204/mcj.2348
Subject(s) - yard , poetry , art history , style (visual arts) , art , lawn , visual arts , literature , physics , ecology , quantum mechanics , biology
Like olive skin and the tilt of my ring fingers,I get a knack for crazy schemes from you.I was ten when we moved to the new house, built from scratch and stark in a grassless yard. Six weeks in you said: We need a lawn.That night all five of us drove to the coast to steal turf from the Golden Beach Golf Course. Like so many transgressions, it’s outrageous only in retrospect.We took the ute; me and Mum up front with you the boys in the back with picks and spades, all laid flat beneath a blue tarpaulin.Splintered and whingeing, we dug all night and squares of turf hung in our arms like freshly dead dogs, surprising with their heft and flex, and the warmth of the earth at the roots.We left a void like a burial plot. They’ve got so much, you said, they’ll hardly miss it. Back home, we laid out squares like patchwork, tended them for months until the roots took, the seams faded. We called the lawn our own and forgot it had ever been otherwise.Citation reference for this articleMLA StyleDicinoski, Michelle. "Golf" M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture .APA StyleDicinoski, M. (2004, Mar17). Golf. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 7,