Sports Poems from
Hoosier Poets
Growing the Legend
Barry Harris
after portrait of Larry Bird: Indiana
Legend by Douglas Daniel
at
the National Art Museum of Sport
Shooting five hundred
free throws every dawn
at the Springs Valley gym,
the legend grows as corn does
in furrowed rows
coaxing itself from the ground.
A yellow-tasseled
corn stalk of a man
pushes himself
through the hoosier earth
of French Lick and
to
The legend knows
somewhere someone sometime
will be shooting five hundred
and one.