Poet’s Corner: Dispatches from the Winter Games

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Priscila Uppal is poet-in-residence for the Canadian Athletes Now Fund during the Olympics and Paralympics. Through dispatches and poetry for the LRC, Priscila will blog about her experiences there and at the Arctic Games in Grande Prairie, Alberta. She is the editor of The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories and author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-nominated Ontological Necessities.

Feb 26

penalty box: the nation’s confessional

triple axel: a pinwheel in a child’s hands on Canada day 

moguls:  mountain acne

slob air: couch surfing on snow

mirror skate: DaVinci’s handwriting

slaloms: gate-slayers

shoots clean: 5 ways of looking at a blackbird 

ski-cross: cryptic crossword race

slap shot:  the student’s turn to punish the teacher

McEgg: scrambled human on buttered toast

corner guards: ice mounties  

hurry hard: hiding evidence of the party as Dad pulls up in the driveway  

Snowboarding Results End Philosophical Debate:

The half-pipe, is, without a doubt, half-full.

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