Poem: Weld

When I was 14 or 15 I was selected to take part in an elite training camp for hockey players. It was called an ‘academy’ which is a fancy term for Bootcamp. 

I was pretty excited – and honoured – because Ramesh Patel was going to be there. And he had been in the New Zealand team that won gold at the Olympic Games in 1976. (Which was the year I was  born …