Sports Poems from
Hoosier Poets
Alley Rules
JL Kato
(Winner Best
Book of Indiana Poetry in 2011 - Shadows in Concrete)
No
truck to pick up
the trash talk. No net
to catch the ball,
which plummets
like lightning
to a tree. One player
widens his stance,
swings his elbows
under the hoop.
The
fallen opponent
clutches his jaw.
It
is twilight, and there is
no foul.