Futbol

By Alfred Corn

This article appeared in the June 3, 2002 edition of The Nation.

May 16, 2002

As if to move a flexible sphere from here
to there with unassisted head and foot
were natural and obvious. As if
a dance could always bow to resolute
constraint and never be danced the same way twice.
As if whistles and cheers, the hullabaloo
of fervent gazers were all the music needed
to keep its players' goals in tune. So that
as they weave, dodge, collide, collapse in breathless
haystacks--and rise and fall and rise again--
we're made, if not one, then at least whole.

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About Alfred Corn

Alfred Corn's newest collection of poems, Contradictions, will be published next year (2002) by Copper Canyon Press. more...
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