Rowing In The Human Race

(Photograph © Ann Woolliams)

Rowing in the Human Race

The rower is glimpsed,

Physical perfection,

As he pounds the water

In competition,

Flexed physical perfection,

Desired, envied,

Made romance of

By those watching him,

Glimpsed prefection the eye possesses,

Like flesh possesses shadow,

The perfected moment experienced

That eludes one

As one is experiencing it.

Philip Kuepper

(July 2012)