one moment

one instant in time,
captured, posted, embedded,
a legancy nailed

but what if he had been
the man he is in his own mind
and caught both throws,
like an Houston Astro shortstop
in the playoff years,
or like Natty Bumppo when he caught
Le Loup Cervier’s tomahawk, mid-air.
and what if he had tossed them back , one...two,
like a game of frisbee between old friends
on the white house's green lawn
or the green zone's brown sand