Why would anyone waste his/her time skiing when you could be fly-fishing, especially in New Zealand?  Photos are of extreme skiers on  South Island, N.Z., 1989.

    

                       Newton’s Law

                       On Mountain Tops, white, drifted Snow,
                       Holds Hearts, uplifted, by the Tow;
                       Yet Men go back to Valleys low,
                       To bask in Aprèskiers’ Glow.

                       Black Diamond honed; an Edge to keep,
                       Plowed Bunny Slopes; dredged Powders, deep;
                       Iced Moguls, ledged, down Hills, so steep,
                       Just schuss for Thrills, then skyward leap.

                       From Alpine Peaks’ Dichotomy,
                       Comes this respectful Blasphemy:
                       ‘All Skiers know with Certainty,
                       Why God invented Gravity!’
 

 

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© Howard B. Eskin 1996