collaborative storytelling that is equal parts critical and creative

Sports Star

Jamie Gallegos

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boy bonnets protect the heads from

the drop, drips, sunkiss

wet astroturf glints and soaks up

foot steps, quick ones

 

push through space to dance, to play, to win

this play,

I say: "just don't move it too far"

and I'll be a sports star

 

sixteen, painting flames on your white truck

the lawn care, car parts, the pond

where white and scarlet kois, shiny

skim the top, then slap the bottom

 

I wear your number on my back

but can I ever be as loyal as Gus?

never leaving your dad's heels

a working dog, a smiling mascot

 

in this game, you always point

and I always look

I never know what's going on

but I can't help but cheer