cricket match

late season cricket
behind the floodlights
the setting moon

murmuration

after cricket
starlings
in the sunset

early season

first cricket game
pale flapping
trouserlegs

frost

frosty morning
the cricket pitch
in its whites

afternoon session

cricket on the radio —
tea
and one more biscuit

underfoot

Alpine meadow
crickets leap
chirp
(inspired by Bashō)

Ellerslie CC

local cricket club
trophies…most runs, most wickets,
most dust

Pre-season

village cricket pitch —
dripping with morning dew
and unscored runs