I think rugby is up there in a ‘preferably not list’ but so many sports are. Apart from cricket, thats just an excuse for patrons to drink and watch some well-paid bastards out in the full heat of an Australian summer doing not much at all. Look it up, its a snooze and yet a national treasure here, Im yet to understand why.
Hockey I get, thats exciting!
my body marked
with earthly stories
~
a 3 year old runs
under a farm fence
almost rips an eye
~
a hockey puck
off the face
a pass, a goal
~
armour exposed
falling to the ice
an elbow explodes
~
top speed
a skate breaks
a hand reaches the boards
protecting the spine
~
my stories
my scars
mine
I was thinking that three of the photos looked like they were hockey related! :-)
Constellations – What a clever way to put it! Scars make the map of a lifetime
Hockey – a mothers worst nightmare.
a long list
of ideas mapping the body
constellations
rattled the loudest
to mark the concept
~
too funny
hockey WAS my mom’s
worst nightmare
probably the same
as your australian rugby
I think rugby is up there in a ‘preferably not list’ but so many sports are. Apart from cricket, thats just an excuse for patrons to drink and watch some well-paid bastards out in the full heat of an Australian summer doing not much at all. Look it up, its a snooze and yet a national treasure here, Im yet to understand why.
Hockey I get, thats exciting!
ah cricket
that is a peculiar one …
a body torn
a soul born
pain in release
a high tolerance
sometimes
the pain isn’t even
sensed
And to shed blood (perhaps tears) was likely worth it in each case. Pain has a funny way of pleasing.
lessons learned
~
pain is sometimes
our best teacher