‘Hockey puck’ (or; A poet’s frame of reference)

A S H Smyth — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:38:51 +0000

I
I like to have my steaks done
‘like a hockey puck’.
Sometimes I actually say this
to the waiters (though
not in French restaurants, admittedly.)

II
In Ethiopia, some ‘baristas’
knock used coffee grounds
out onto the bare-earth floors.
Flat, round, and black.
‘Like a hockey puck,’ I tell people.

III
I used to play a lot of hockey.
The grass kind, though;
not the Canadian kind.
I have never once so much as
set foot on a ice rink.

steak – A S H Smyth

‘Hockey puck’ (or; A poet’s frame of reference)