Bull-Dancers

Modern Olympics
owes little to Delphi.
Where is pankration
or charioteers?

One game we have from
sources far older:
pommel-horse vaulting
comes to us from Crete.

In frescoes at Knossos
lithe figures turn handsprings
over the sweat-streaming
flanks of the bull

tossed into somersaults
head-down and one-handed
poised, hanging high in
the grip of a god.

image courtesy of Wikimedia

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