The Goalie Is
August 17, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
20:00
mr. saturday night
sir lacquered leather glove
off to the right (puck rounds to your left)
back in the crease
time and again
again and again
centred, spread
crow in your head
mask of lights
the irritated sting of distraction
20:00
a bed of almond comfort
scratching
wet, lime-high pickle fragrant
sewn-face, leather-face, stone face,
shaped pain cheek-bone
equipment-hating
seeing wingers flip
watching centres harried
hearing defencemen apologise
(the puck caroms to forty-eight shots against anyway)
20:00
mr. sunday morning
biscuit sleep
tousled stick
orange juice tired
ibuprofen, bad cartoons, red light nightmare
afterimage
older than your dad
fresh as flour
gold as a bucket
green as his numbers
grainy
gravelly
accidental
cracked
scheduled
ginger
mr. monday night
cluttered puck hero again
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