Hockeyglyphics

By Mike Gifford from Ottawa, Canada (P1050798 Uploaded by Skeezix1000) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

We’ll flood the backyard to make
a skating rink, create a team —
a whole league to fill the winter

with the slide and scrape of blades
tracing crazy eights, the slap
of stick and puck, maybe all the way
to Saint Patrick’s Day.