[New-Poetry] The only football poem I know

[Anny Ballardini]

It's an exceptional poem.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:24 PM, <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:

>  I've posted this poem before on Super Bowl Sunday. The Boss is playing at
> halftime, and he's a poet.
> Kurt Warner won a Super Bowl for the St. Louis Rams. Know QBing for the
> Arizona Cardinals. The St. Louis Cardinals were my team growing up. Some
> kind of sentimental triangulation going on. James Wright remains a
> foundational poet for me since I first really understood what contemporary
> poetry was or could be when I read his _The Branch Will Not Break_...
>
> Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
>
> In the Shreve High football stadium,
> I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
> And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
> And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
> Dreaming of heroes.
>
> All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
> Their women cluck like starved pullets,
> Dying for love.
>
> Therefore,
> Their sons grows suicidally beautiful
> At the beginning of October,
> And gallop terribly against each other's bodies.
>
> --James Wright
>
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