Archive for the Category ‘Leaves of Turf by Amorak Huey’

Leaves of Turf: Ode on a Punt Return

Leaves of Turf: <i>Ode on a Punt Return</i>

Quindarius Carr could go very far / Because Auburn’s greatest punt return man was once featured on an RC can.

You’ll get much better poetry than that in the latest installment of Amorak Huey’s season-long series of football verse.

And if you don’t, you can put us in a hearse / ba-dum chhhh.

Leaves of Turf: The Ol’ Ball Coach, Stopping by Jordan-Hare on a Saturday Evening

Leaves of Turf: <i>The Ol’ Ball Coach, Stopping by Jordan-Hare on a Saturday Evening</i>

Two coaches diverged in the wood.
Auburn definitely chose the one less traveled.
Poet Amorak Huey offers us a Frostian take on the well-worn Steve Spurrier.

Leaves of Turf: The Tigers

Leaves of Turf: <i>The Tigers</i>

“Wonder whose hand will seize this fire? / I’ll tell you now: His name is Dyer.” William Blake ain’t never done better.

Leaves of Turf: Newton’s Three Laws of Motion

Leaves of Turf: <i>Newton’s Three Laws of Motion</i>

The second installment of Amorak Huey’s game-by-game, season-long series of football verse compares Sir Cameron Newton’s second rushing touchdown as an Auburn Tiger to a holy love affair, and invokes Irish mythology to voice the Auburn fan’s secret certainty that with Cam, there can be no such thing as a busted play.

Leaves of Turf: Optimism Rhymes with Orange

Leaves of Turf: <i>Optimism Rhymes with Orange</i>

First in a season-long series of football verse from TWER poet lAUreate Amorak Huey.

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