Completion by Jeff Santosuosso
The corner’s missed assignment, bump and run,
allows you to break free. You separate
one stride, then two. Now open, you await
the pass, the focal point of everyone.
He steps back, four steps more and looks downfield.
He sets his feet within the pressure, rush
that threatens him, releases it, a hush
among the fans, precise timing revealed.
Its own tight spiral, like the ball, the play
a cumulative duet, quarterback,
receiver, brash brown rainbow, ballet-
like pas de deux, aerial attack.
What flew is still, what rotated now lies.
He threw a thrill, ball and man synchronized.
Jeff Santosuosso is a business consultant and award-winning poet living in Pensacola, FL. His chap book, “Body of Water,” is available through Clare Songbirds Publishing House. He is Editor-in-Chief of panoplyzine.com, an online journal of poetry and short prose. Jeff’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Comstock Review, San Pedro River Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Mojave River Review, The Lake (UK), Red Fez, First Literary Review-East, Texas Poetry Calendar, Avocet, and other online and print publications.