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Sport 34: Winter 2006

Reading Italian poetry at Waihi Beach

page 160

Reading Italian poetry at Waihi Beach

for Vincent Moleta

A chestnut or cricket ball
it bounces

along the edge
of the known world—

the well-tempered avocado
the well-trained satellite—

hovers in the mind
before re-entry, then lands

on the orchard road
amidst a flock of well-heeled quail

for whom waits
the patient motorist.