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The Web Poetry Corner - Thomas Michael McDade - Rollie Pariseau

Rollie Pariseau

by

Thomas Michael McDade

It’s not my lone high
school victory,
the 100-yard butterfly
vs. North Kingston
or competing
on the same team
with future Hall of Famer
Bruce Calvert that tops
my swimming reveries.
It’s Rollie Pariseau,
a gridiron coach
who took charge
at Tolman in 1960.
Gaps in his aquatic expertise
were patched
with inspiration and laps,
laps and more laps.
We practiced until
out chlorine weary
eyes blurred
the words-to-win-by
soggy signs taped
on the walls.
A critical training rule
was that every
pool exit be
treated as a pushup.
This drill is still so
important to me
that I resent the easy
egress oceans offer.

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