Monday, August 19, 2013

After Apolo

No, the title is not a typo.  It's a too obscure reference to Apolo Ohno, the speed skater who spells his name that way.

      After Apolo

The bent old man
stoops his way down the street
like a wind-up speed skater,
a stuttering, slow motion shadow
of what, for all I know,
 he might once have been-
a flickering foreshadowing of what
we all might be,
of what I am becoming
as I round this crowded, lonely rink
one more time.



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