AFTER DRAWING THE KING OF CUPS
1.
I am watching the hockey game
on local television
Mickey Redmond has slowed the game
into a surreal frame-by-frame
breakdown
of Brett Hull’s famous wrist shot.
It is like hearing
through water
the image coming
in slow waves of action.
"Just like a bow and arrow when Brett Hull leans into her," he says
of the stick
its long wooden shaft
arched as a dolphin.
2.
Skating on ice has always felt to me like walking on water.
3.
What woman wouldn’t love
a man like that
a man whose movement
is more than fluid
a man who would bend even Diana back and tell her
voice the scratch of fins through ocean
"Look at the moon."
1 comment:
this is my most favorite one in a long time. i keep reading it over and over.
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