The footballer in the small room – Janet Frame

Focus on Frame!


The footballer in the small room – Janet Frame

Now he roars through an unlit stadium of silence.
A curve of pain in his head
corresponds to this teamless loneliest game
where his blood has less worth than orange juice,
but the spectator walls do not know his name.



I found these poems in an old poetry anthology from school. Unfortunately there isn't a reference for where they originally came from.