Pitch Invasion 032: “A Strike for Each Stripe”

New season, same old roar,

Conquest never bores him.

Poor Werder;

they’d hoped his ambition would be no longer famished

but found his hunger undiminished,

and instead he fed on their hides,

a goal for each white stripe.

Photo by Ryu Voelkel

Poetry by Musa Okwonga

Pitch Invasion 031: “A Regular Player’s Tale”