Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The longest walk


Wrong flag at soccer game angers North Koreans
Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2012

Though none dared dissent
into the tunnel now slips
one player, stalling

only to tighten
her laces and stretch loose
her tight quadriceps,

dazzled by the roar.
The tunnel runs north to south,
by a leap of faith

she becomes reborn,
her cord thus severed, she breathes
freedom and glory.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet

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