Sport 38: Winter 2010
Posthistory
Posthistory
This is where the narrative began
although, inside his wired tongue
it resembled the ending
where a child was born and all
was resolved with only
a brief period of bloodshed
and the sacrifice
was itself not entirely
a negative result.
This is why dialogue appeared:
to lighten the mood and achieve
characterisation—
hot breath on lips, nose pinched,
ear to chest, three sharp outtakes—
if he is practiced and the patient is strong
life will sputter back
out of their mouth will come
blood or water or light from a cave.
What happened next
went down in history
as a short pass to the blindside
where waiting on the flank
was man with a round beard
and round glasses, a round face,
he caught it mid-stream, middle aged,
flowering on the big screen.