Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
One Zero Zero     A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044


Timeline     Books     Authors     Presses     Resources     Search      home







POINTS ON THE GRID

George Bowering

 

back  next
 

THE HOCKEY HERO


............................................faces a shifting field
of action
....men on skates.... leaving him only
moments of pathway
.....a dash to left or right
a closing

.................HE MUST BANG THE THING IN!

.................or a
banging rebound!
.................quick roar of the crowd

..............And faces a clattering
..............moment’s trellis of sticks
..............poking for
..............the thing
..............in the corner

...And the long pushing rush to the other end
to catch the man with the
.....puck
now on his stick
..............the meeting
..............impact the
..............crash against the boards

And the thing sliding free ahead
..............a second’s maze of men
..............a pickup and a
BANGING REBOUND!