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第5章 Three Drawings

1 The Point

Those were the days –

booting a leather football

truer and farther

then you ever expected!

It went rattling

hard and fast

over daisies and benweeds,

it thumped

but it sang too,

a kind of dry, ringing

foreclosure of sound.

Or else, a great catch

and a cry from the touch-line

to Point her! That spring

and unhampered smash-through!

Was it you

or the ball that kept going

beyond you, amazingly

higher and higher

and ruefully free?

2 The Pulse

The effortlessness

of a spinning reel. One quick

flick of the wrist

and your minnow sped away

whispering and silky

and nimbly laden.

It seemed to be all rise

and shine, the very opposite

of uphill going – it was pure

duration, and when it ended,

the pulse of the cast line

entering water

was smaller in your hand

than the remembered heartbeat

of a bird. Then, after all of that

runaway give, you were glad

when you reeled in and found

yourself strung, heel-tip

to rod-tip, into the river's

steady purchase and thrum.

3 A Haul

The one that got away

from Thor and the giant Hymer

was the world-serpent itself.

The god had baited his line

with an ox-head, spun it high

and plunged it into the depths.

But the big haul came to an end

when Thor's foot went through the boards

and Hymer panicked and cut

the line with a bait-knife. Then

roll-over, turmoil, whiplash!

A Milky Way in the water.

The hole he smashed in the boat

opened, the way Thor's head

opened out there on the sea.

He felt at one with space,

unroofed and obvious –

surprised in his empty arms

like some fabulous high-catcher

coming down without the ball.

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