Book Nine

Guest

Offense

Blocked, passes

Fumbled, defense

Scored ball turnovers,

Home team herded guest team

Players goal post to goal post. 





Trapped

Between

Ships and ditch, 

Trojans struck down,

Sarpedon speared by

Patroklos, Apollo

Sent Sleep, Death, carried off corpse.




Leaps

Side stepped 

Stealth taggers,

Throws eluded

Carefully plotted

Assaults, quarterbacks, pressed,

Zig zagged along the sidelines.





First,

Second,

Third down, home

Team advance slowed

Unexpectedly

By superior guest

Team blocking yards from end zone. 





Three

Attempts,

Patroklos

Broke his promise

To Achilles by 

Climbing wall, Apollo

Battered him back with warning.




Pure

Chance had

School's former,

Team quarterbacks

Facing each other

Across the field without

Mask of protective helmets.




Fourth,

And 10,

Punt opted,

Ball snapped, punter

Took three steps, drop kicked 

To punt returner who 

Ran around tacklers down field.




Charged

Three times,

Apollo

Struck Patroklos 

On fourth from behind,

Knocked helmet off, scattered

Shield, spear, left him defenseless.




His

Sweater

Pulled off, tossed

Toward dorm master,

Starting quarterback

Scored touchdowns end zone to 

Opposite end zone three times.




Points

Scored bought

Second-string

Quarterback play,

Fourth and long, ball clutched,

Wrist, pivoted for throw,

Snapped, when linebacker sacked him.




A

Trojan,

Euphorbus,

Launched javelin

Between the shoulders

Of Patroklos, Hektor 

Then speared him through his stomach.




Thoughts

Forward,

Team's starting 

Quarterback ran

Backwards, made his pass,

Heel hit exposed edge of 

Slate, stumbled, twisted ankle.




School's

Soccer

Team won game,

Tongue-tied, headed 

To football field, found

His roommate, wrist held, friend,

Headed toward infirmary. 




Sprawled,

Naked,

Patroklos'

Corpse, protected

By Menelaus

From Hektor, who plotted

Feeding it to Trojan dogs.




Right

Foot bared,

Ligament

Tear diagnosed,

Supine quarterback,

Attended by doctor,

Coach, ended football season.




Cross

Country

Teammates set

Fast start, stayed in

Group formation to

Support each other for 

Interscholastic event.




Strong

Aias

Paired up with

Menelaus,

Protector Glaukos

Chastised Hektor for

Abandoning Sarpedon.




His

Football

Team members

Carried meal trays,

Books between classes,

Helped with errands after

Sunday's unforeseen fallout. 





{18 stanzas/page}






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