working for the boss

there speeds the running one
muscular aggressive flying edge
fluid defense fast break football
driving colts away to bachelor bands
half-ton thundering heroes wheel and chase
pure and mighty
before dayafter battle scavengers caw and play

uprights at sunrise
(the stallions, our city’s most successful football team ever, won the grey cup championship in 1995)

for coca-colas

ghostly eyes linger about posts
helicopters of human torso hover
immaculate hands rise skyward earthward
mouths shout bombs prayers hailing echowire
over bloody knees aching thighs tumbling
shoulders concrete into ribs frozen mud
unite us to bury
thunder galloping home

goal posts at sunrise
(texans became colts at memorial stadium in 1953 and champions on national tv in 1958)

self avoided sprints rewarded

instructed
arrayed performance
vessels in waves crystalling flaking cratering branching networking ranging faulting striking
contracted minutes
lub dub murmur crackle whistle rub gasp grate gallop
ball flying in soaring out snapping to connecting with arcing across
with turf wood leather steel cotton wool plastic
mud grass lime tar resin sweat lager ale sugar meat
pant snort tap crunch squelch pop crack thud whack shout roar thunder
sun mist bright grey spotlight backdrop green brown black orange blue mottled pixels in time
into pitches snaps strikes yards seconds outs downs bases hashes innings possessions runs points games series seasons
pieces process symmetry chaos

home plate sunrise
(municpal stadium, later rebuilt and renamed into memorial stadium, was built in 1922 on thirty-third street and ellerslie avenue)