Round 5 – Haiku Bob: the gauntlet
Gather Round—
the gauntlet
of Collingwood haters
foreign stadium
I follow my nose
to the urinals
settling into
the new surrounds
I give the ump a spray
defences on top
I make small talk
with the bartender
stars emerge. . .
the line between the grandstand
and the sky
they sneak within a goal—
that familiar godforsaken
ache
final siren
voices litter
the exits
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About rob scott
Rob Scott (aka Haiku Bob) is a peripatetic haiku poet who calls Victoria Park home. He writes haiku in between teaching whisky and drinking English, or something like that.
‘voices litter’ such an evocative and true representation of that tinkle at the end of a game.
Excellent stuff, HB