A Poem – “Icelandic Saga”

 

It was a fairy tale game.

 

The Icelandic soccer team

beat England at the

2016 European Championship.

 

Some speculate

how the Nordic nation celebrated.

 

Nine months later,

a surge in baby deliveries

is reported by

Reykjavik hospitals.

 

(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)

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