Book Nine

Lame,

Away

Team offense 

Blocked, quarterback's

Passes fumbled, home 

Team scored ball turn over, 

Its players reeked confidence.


Trapped 

Between 

Ships and ditch,

Trojans treaded,

Sarpedon speared by

Patroklos, Apollo 

Sent Sleep, Death, to bear off corpse.


Star's

Leaps side

Stepped any

Stealth taggers, sheer

Numbers shrank sightlines, 

Completed passes, runs

Zigzagged across grass of quad.


Stakes

High with

Field control,

Home Quarterback 

Clutched ball, pivoted

Wrist, threw, wide receiver 

Caught it, parried to goal post.


Hot-

Headed

Combatant,

Patroklos broke

Promise he'd made to

Achilles by climbing

Wall, offending Apollo.


First

Forays,

Star, stalwarts

Dominated;

Subversive actions-

Steals- carried on runners' 

Legs turned the tide against peers.


First,

Second,

Third downs, home

Team advance slowed,

Away team, woken

Up, exercised playbook 

Four-point blocking against them.


Charged

Three times,

Apollo 

Struck Patroklos 

On fourth from behind,

Knocked off helmet, scattered

Shield, spear, left him defenseless.


Pace

Heated

Game players, 

Boys launched jackets,

Shetland sweaters, toward

Spectators seated on

Brick steps in front of the dorms.


Fourth

And ten,

Punt opted,

Ball snapped, punter

Took three steps, drop kicked;

End over end, away

Got possession near end zone.


A

Trojan,

Euphorbus,

Launched javelin 

Between the shoulders

Of Patroklos, Hektor 

Then speared him through his stomach.


Dis-

Tracted

By whistle,

Star back-pedaled 

With smooth Top-Siders®,

Heel slipped into sidewalk 

Breakage, twisting his ankle.


Cheers

Rose from 

Soccer field,

Bitter rival 

Prep school team sent home 

Scoreless in season's first

Rout, football game continued.


Sprawled, 

Naked,

Patroklos'

Corpse protected

By Menelaus 

From Hektor, who plotted

Feeding it to Trojan dogs.


School's 

Nurse rushed

Onto quad,

Ligament tear

Diagnosed after

ER X-ray; one day 

After win, quarterback out.


Home

Runners

Ahead, both

Teams slowed down by

Cleats sucking mud of

Rough trail, far removed from 

Cheering crowd at soccer field.


Strong 

Aias

Partnered with 

Menelaus,

Protector Glaukos 

Chastised Hektor for his 

Abandoning Sarpedon.


His

Football 

Teammates stepped 

Up, carried books

Between classes, ran

Errands, ankle braced, a

Crutch keeping the pressure off. 




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