Sport 34: Winter 2006
Reading Italian poetry at Waihi Beach
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.