Badminton
A father and his daughter
playing badminton
in a weedy backyard without a net.
How many times
can the battering back-and-
forth connect to send a plastic
shuttlecock flying? Stroke,
that’s 70, return again
on a high easy arc, 71, while
Mom fixes dinner (meatloaf
again, count the grocery
pennies, 79 a pound, and
a husband with nothing better
to do after work than hit plastic
birdies).
But they’re actual
flying birds, 81, these
soaring plastic wings
rallied by a father
and his daughter, 82, stroke
83, never
let it touch the ground
or you have to start
all over again
counting. Yesterday
they sailed to 99 before
dinner which is always
waiting.
Copyright © Taylor Graham | Year Posted 2006
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