Teenage boys playing

football at Colt State

Park

No Coaches

No Parents

One rule - 10 Mississippi

to rush

Hut, Hut, Hike

A mad dash down

the crooked grass.

A hail Mary pass

full tilt, a leap at 45 degrees

off the ground.

Ball grazes fingers

and tumbles away.

He crashes to earth

and loses his hat.

Lots of high fives

and he jumps up laughing.