Monday, 8 September 2014

a fourteenth new poem...'norman cowans'

My first cricket autograph was
One Norman Cowans, Hampshire
CCC, Right Arm Fast
Bowler, Right Hand Bat.
The autograph is unique in that it
Contains some of Cowans’ DNA -
Brittle atom-sized globules of
Spittle from the remains of his
’99 flake, he
Generously spilled on my little
National Trust notepad, Dad
Gave me to collect sacred
Fragments of hand-writing.
I remember well, Norman had
A nice way of forming consonants.

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