[New-Poetry] The only football poem I know

[jforjames at aol.com]

Sam posted a link to it...
I wish there was some more specific imagery in it, but I do like the idea of the linemen being locked in a world of endless conflict, and giving them a nobility as they
ply their trade within a kind of nether space.
Finnegan
....

Good Linemen Live in a Closed World 


Good linemen live in a closed world -- they move
Inside themselves to move themselves against
The others and their violence -- they give
To interior visions whole seasons no good sense
Would approve -- their insides creak and groan, crying
A thing that's trapped along the line is shrill
And curious and wants out. Bodies playing
Laugh and dream to gain the massive will
Their trade requires. These men maintain, they attack,
They suffer repetition for years and years.
Part war and similar to art, their work
Is sometimes elegant. Inside their fears
At the closed center of one fear, they move
Quickly against themselves with a massive love.



?-- James Whitehead


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Speaking of Whitehead, he wrote a nice sonnet called "Linemen Lived In A Closed World."

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