Dominion Post - Nelson Wattie's Karori Park

A poem by Nelson Wattie from A Tingling Catch was featured in the "Thursday Poem" page of the Wellington newspaper Dominion Post today. It's a poem about Karori Park where Wellington club cricket takes place over the summer.

NELSON WATTIE

Karori Park

It’s funny how they

wear their whites on greens,

clock bat on ball

and think they’re English.

It’s March. The sun is bright.

We walk into forest shade.

The trees are tall, and fine and foreign

with bark that cracks to show its age.

The floor is brown with dry

and ancient needles,

and in branches above

the sun has disappeared.

When we emerge, the game

is over and white legs

have turned to blue and gone,

while light is fading from their green.

Poem © Nelson Wattie

(from Dominion Post, Thursday 7 October 2010)