hutt

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.

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

10.2 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

10.3 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

10.4 GREEN
like an emanation now
charged with ever greater meaning
stretching far back into the past unflinching every
ponypigeon has
its golden age this lords pitch is mine i am
the lord of time the corridor is narrow the corridor is mine
one perfect ball journeying up and down

10.5 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

10.6 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

12.1 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

12.2 VAUGHAN
one
perfect ball uncle
can do nothing OUT
keeps low bang on target
scuttles stumps! wrecks the
clatter into the leg crashes
into the
edge cannot play that
s unfortunate for vaughan

12.3 GREEN
like an emanation now
charged with ever greater meaning
stretching far back into the past unflinching every
ponypigeon has
its golden age this lords pitch is mine i am
the lord of time the corridor is narrow
one perfect ball journeying up and down this mountain
of mine

12.4 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 golden age

12.5 YELLOW
if you could
see it then youd understand
fuller & on the off the cut is
seamless & on the off chance
y single drives strokes
results through cover

12.6 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