CORNERPOETRY Tidying

By Eddie Kim

The first night you spend alone, for predictable reasons, you think about the thousands of books leading to one. Poems, stories, movies, songs, and it’s too much.

It’s your family around dinner, each insisting the same story their own way. You fail into the couch.

Questions breathe in the details you gasp after your friends go home. Kiss the dirt dissolving into your palm after wrecking your bike.

Breathe in the wonder of healing, wondering if it will ever take. Some wounds cannot be healed, and some wounds, you feel, should not.

You dust off your palms, but leave the dirt under your nails. A sigh works its way about the room. You wonder if you can do any of this.

You get up to wash the dishes. It might as well start with the dishes.

Eddie Kim has recently opened up Gomo Kimchi on Allison street serving up homemade, small-batch kimchi with a slice of poetry on the side.

Govanhill Outdoors Quiz

Created by Marzanna Antoniak

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE GREAT (GOVANHILL) OUTDOORS?

Govanhill is blessed with many amazing spaces where residents can rest, congregate, grow vegetables, and enjoy their favourite activities. Have you been to all the places mentioned?

Which local green space is home to a dragon?

A: Govanhill Park

B: Govanhill Community Garden

What is the green space next to Larkfield Community Centre called?

A: Millenium Park

B: Bennan Square

Where are Kingsley Rose Gardens located?

A: Next to Hampden Bowling Club

B: Next to Queen’s Park Bowling & Tennis Club

Where can you find plaques commemorating local residents and pets?

A: Govanhill Community Remembrance Garden

B: Govanhill Park

Hot Shot

When did the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden open?

A: 2013

B: 2003

What can you see when you raise your head on the corner of Queen’s Drive and Langside Road?

A: A statue of a legendary local cobbler

B: A statue of the Roman goddess of freedom

What are two of your favourite local outdoor spaces?

A:

B: