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by Mark Parsons

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In the grass
With a football teed up and
Laces out,

 

Ten-degree
Tilt
Back to the kicker,

 

Whoever he is,
Not me,
Not me.

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Mark Parsons’ poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in Ex Pat Press, Dreich, Cape Rock, and I-70 Review. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

 

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