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Shotputters and discus throwers. (poem)

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From: Commonweal
Date: 19940909
Author:Kress, Leonard

And if a person does not care to transfer those terms that he learned from lower and less worthy things to those sublime entities...

Saint Augustine

Cut down to size by distance, always consigned for everybody's safety to outer fields far from hurdlers, sprinters, vaulters, quartermilers who - unlike us who put the shot or spin the discus - disavow the soul's existence. Why else would they push their trimmed and sinewy corporeality

against the grade-school lesson of parables? But we so mired by the bulk of flesh and muscle, forgoing assembly honors and applause to bow ...

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