Perihelion: An Online Journal of Poetry and Mayhem
The Phoenix Issue, No. 16, Winter 2008
 
 

JAE NEWMAN

Touchdown

When I go to Korea,
I won’t take much:

just a football.

Guiding each child’s hand,
I’ll teach them

to celebrate, to feel
as free as I do.

Spike it, I’ll say. 
Like this.