Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.

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51. Sport [100 poems challenge]

 

51.          Sport

Kitted out in cast-off white pads,
Mouthguard fitted, but no mask,
Broken straps on battered kickers,
Thin gloves grip my hockey stick.
Nose is chilled on winter morning,
Fog obscures the further goal,
Parents huddle on the sidelines
Rugged up in their coats and scarves.
Field is merely grassy tussocks,
Every pass a random shot;
Mud grabs firmly to my boot studs,
Clearing kicks just slow […]