“Sevenling (Game Seven)”: A Hockey Poem

Inspired by Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides prompt in Writer’s Digest


Black and Gold, Bleu Blanc et Rouge, bloody lips: color commentary

Coaches pacing, players skating, fanatics biting fingernails--invested all

Bruins, Canadiens--who will win, who will fall?

The Crease: A Goalie's Poem

Prompted by Poetic Asides and inspired by my fondness for goalies, I channeled the Middle Ages to craft this Collum lune.

The bordered crease:
A noble netminder’s blessed bastion;
Outlandish opponents, cease