春草

王科军

东风漫院翻飞叶，百草牵连万树丛。

泛绿出黄春脆嫩，悄然地上绽青茏。

春风

王科军

叶乱枝梢耳畔响，春风肆意旋高墙。

排梳矮草染绒绿，耕牛垄上泛丝香。

馋了

王科军

垂涎三尺隔屏滴，美团外卖送餐时。

鲜饺香菜录PPT，点饼按梅速充饥。

闲时

王科军

琴棋书画诗酒花，柴米油盐酱醋茶。

习舞偷闲念过往，夕阳依旧慕朝霞。

冷不

王科军

雪掩行人催慢步，核酸站队几尺隔。

场地落絮千重厚，抗疫天使春衫薄！

A Round Boxing

It’s the tenth and final round, and Patrick D is fading. He’s still circling the ring in search of an opening, but his punches have lost the switchblade quickness they had in he early rounds. If he does not do something dramatic, he is going to lose this fight.

He had once looked like a star: No. 1 amateur welterweight, Olympic alternate, undefeated in his first 10 professional fight. But boxing is unforgiving. One bad loss to aweak fighter, and the glow was gone. Now not even a comeback can restore it.

On this October night in 2014, at the wintrust Arena, in Chicago, there is a sense that the 27-year –old D is fighting for a good deal more than the mid-tier title belt officially under dispute. If this bout does not go well, D’s career could be over. And it is not going well: D went down in the fourth round and again in the eighth, and he’s way behind on points.

“You got no choice.” his coach told him before the final round began.

Either he scores a knockout in the next three minutes or he loses. So he presses, he jabs, then hooks, then jabs again, but his blows all deflect off charles C.

At 21 years old, C is everything Day once was and more: an 11-time national champion, a 2016 Olympian, a perfect 10-0 since he went pro. He is a defensive virtuoso, but he hits hard enough to crumples a body like cardboard, and even as he repels D’s blows, he stalks forward in a spring-loaded crouch, peering over the tops of his gloves with a kind of predatory patience.

C knows that he can wait this round out. The fight is already his. But he also know, as all boxers do, that people don’t pay ot see a 10-round decision. They pay to see a knockout. Sometimes before fights, C will write himself a short not to hand over his bed. Before this one he wrote I will KO my next opponent and dominate.

C throws a straight right and an uppercut left, and another right and another left, the punches flowing together in quicksilver combinations, and all D can do is bear-hug him. But C will not have it, he shoves D off.