Appetizers

(sporting intervals)

by T.P. Wilkinson / May 19th, 2019

bowls
contain
souls
restrain
athletic
rivalry
yet unexplained
are all the drops
are all the soups
the fluid songs
of frozen children
faced with ice
traced the slice
of gender
unshod met
with words
so tender
or swords
greeting, carving
thoughtless bled
through habit
boredom or
incontinence wet.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, May 19th, 2019 at 8:03am and is filed under Poetry.