Christina's world record

by john clare

The day Christina went beyond Twenty-nine feet two and one half inches

The three story fall
That Christina took
Just broke the record
That Beamer set
Finally to fall
Twenty-three years
Hence
You crawled
Less than fourteen
Down the runway
to the raked sand pit
From the thin air
Like Beamer
You landed
Not even a cow saw
The fall
You made
Not even a referee
Was present to
Disqualify the
Scratch you made
Your big toe just
Touching the
The loft's threshold
takeoff plate
On your crawl up.
Christina
Not all leapers
Were loved
Andrew
Not all lovers
Leaped.