Thursday, July 12, 2012

Links Blues

There are worse things than being in a bunker
I think to myself as I walk across the fairway
to that familiar tan valley.

On getting a bit closer, I correct myself:
There are worse things than being in a bunker
with a downhill lie.

One hundred and ten yards to the pin
and with equal parts hope and fear
I select the seven iron.

In an explosion of sand,
a low line drive hits the lip of the trap,
and bounces back to my feet.

There are worse things
there are...
worse things

than being in a bunker
with a downhill lie,
in soft sand.

But right now,
I can't think of even one.


      prof. Stu Kurtz - phd.

4 comments:

  1. hope you don't mind me titling this piece

    i was going to call it titlest blues
    but that might be a cognitive strettch for some

    pax

    jh

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  2. jh,

    hope you don't mind me titling this piece

    Not at all. Your title is very appropriate, although I'll admit that when I first saw it, the first thought in my head was about links in web pages :-).

    Peace

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