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Sunday Game

A poem I wrote while watching my wife play adult league soccer.

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Brian Gabriel Canever
Nov 27, 2019
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Sunday Game

Seated on hot aluminum bleachers,
I watch them on green-yellow grass.

Sweat soaked Sunday warriors,
their heads craning toward the blue sky,
panting like race horses,
chasing a once-white ball,
kicking,
col…

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