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A Poem for March Madness
As March Madness consumes the country, Michael McFee reminds us of the pleasures of backyard hoops. "Shooting Baskets at Dusk" was included in the collection The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets, which McFee edited.
Copyright (c) 1989, Michael McFee. Reproduction or distribution is prohibited without the express permission of the University of North Carolina Press.
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Shooting Baskets at Dusk
He will never be happier than this,
his mind removed as the gossipy swallows
as he shoots, rebounds, dribbles, shoots,
from foul line, corner, left of the key,
absorbed in the rhythm that seems to flow
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