Tag: football poem
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Substitute Victory
I wrote Substitute Victory after watching my dog derail the first football game of the season — a comic domestic moment that mirrored the futility of fandom. The poem turns that chaos into a light meditation on misplaced loyalty and the absurdity of hope.
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England 5, France 3. The 7/18/26. Miami
I wrote England 5, France 7/18/26 after watching the match and noticing how gestures—handshakes, hugs, stiff smiles—carry the residue of conflict and detente more precisely than words. The poem studies how surfaces record both trauma and victory without naming emotion.
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Footballs Are Made for Running, Tossing and Fumbling
Footballs always dazzled me, composed boxes on the shelf, like pigskin half moons and suns needing tees from toppling down, a kick or a toss to send them hurling to human planets. The long run, perfect spiral is inherent in its form, as is carnage, grace, error. Its life is moving forward in the…