Posted tagged ‘so the clay says poem’

Indian Wrestlers, So the Clay

January 3, 2016

Indian Wrestlers – So, the Clay

says
one to the other:
who will win today?
answers:
the man who makes the bets–
no, the man
who takes the bets
,
and though it knows
they’re but dough
to those men–spittle and small
acumen, ghee and
rupee;
out the pit, each
peoples parts, bruise
and broken nose, hearts
rib-caged, eyes, I’s.

 

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Another 55, rather a draft, for Kerry O’ Connor’s prompt on Real Toads to use a photo from the 2015 National Geographic contest; the above taken by Alain Schroeder in Maharashtra, India, of Kushti wrestlers.