hutt 3.2
  hutt - hill end, australia
 
 
Nick Whittock lives in Melbourne, works in a library and occasionally writes poetry about cricketers. He has a nice h(air c)utt. He is already missing Glenn McGrath desperately.

 

 
   
nick whittock - glennsome 501

6.5  STRAUSS
OUT ball   edge
to slips bang
on target perfect strauss
tries to turn on
_____________
___ can do
nothing to el warno
in the
slips!

6.6  ORANGE
just short of a good length &
outside all these spaces ive found
leaves no run out
side off stump every ponypigeon
will have its day

 

8.1  ORANGE
just short of a good length &
outside all these spaces ive found
leaves no run out
side off stump every ponypigeon
will have its day

8.2  GREEN
like an emanation now
charged with ever greater meaning
stretching far back into the past unflinching every
ponypigeon has
its golden age the pitch is mine i am
the lord of time the corridor is narrow the corridor is mine

8.3  PINK
show you how it all began
one perfect ball journeying up and down
til it saturates time and eras waugh
some eras cities to come
seaming in the ball runs away
for the young batsman to get off the
mark awesome brethren and lovers bowlers
as we are

8.4  ORANGE
just short of a good length &
outside all these spaces ive found
leaves no run out
side off stump every ponypigeon
will have its day

8.5  RED
one
perfect ball  can do nothing
___ keeps low bang on target
jags back in! raps _____
clatter into the pad crashes
into so
far cannot play that
seam movements unfortunate
i made it on the bevel

8.6  RED
one perfect ball
can do nothing
___ keeps low bang on
target back on the stumps! raps ____
clatter ______ crashes
into so
far manages to play that
s fortunate for vaughan