It was a fairy tale game.
The Icelandic soccer team
beat England at the
2016 European Championship.
Some speculate
how the Nordic nation celebrated.
Nine months later,
a surge in baby deliveries
is reported by
Reykjavik hospitals.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)