Day 4 - 1-30-13

Prompt for: January 30, 2013
Subject or Theme: Include this line: You could see wings
Word(s) to Include: (see above)
Forbidden Word(s): angel(s), bee(s), bird(s), butterfly(ies), dragonfly(ies), ladybird(s), ladybug(s)
Additional Parameters: The line above can be used as part of another line but the words need to remain in that order. The word could is past tense but you can make it present tense to read You can see wings if your poem is in present tense. Please make it bold, italic or in color so I might find it easier. Minimum 20 lines.

Wingnuts

You could see wings slashing across the ice
as skates scrawled intent, as sticks flailed
chasing an elusive puck.
Ah what fools....to chase that tittle*
tail, that exclamation point of screaming fans
and glory. Bodies slam into the boards
rattling teeth and bone, twigs branch,
interlocking in the storm of snow
and thunderous roar.
Blades carve thin ice,
there is but one design.
Winged prayers follow players,
inciting, urging. Surging voices swell,
championship banners shimmer in the light
of a thousand times ten flashes:
brilliant moments indelibly etched
in the collective psyche. But now, now
it all comes down to five seconds
to break their backs, to break the tie.
Three hard fought victories apiece.
Three seconds - the slap of tape to tape
sends black streak rushing down the ice,
threading through legs, skittering off a stick
then snagged in and fired
between gloves and legs into the net.
You could see wings everywhere, red glory
hoisting Lord Stanley's Cup : Red Wings Win!

*tittle is the dot either over an i or under an exclamation point.
nb: 1. a wingnut is a Detroit Red Wings lover
2. the poem is roughly in the shape of the Stanley Cup