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padding up –
all seagulls face
the city end
 

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galahs
on the sight screen
the batsman appeals
 

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beach cricket –
bluebottles linger
in afternoon shadows
 

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dusk, a surfboard
comes in to the beach
alone
john knight 

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hills hoist —
a leg of his karate suit
kicks in the breeze
 

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 floodlit field
  a cane toad
crouched in goal
nathalie buckland 

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     conversion –
       the sun
falls between goalposts
andre surridge  

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olympic dream –
the slap of trainers
on a bush track
dane smith 

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hot pavement
a swimmer's footprint
evaporating
angela smith  

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night match the scrum leaves behind its steam

andre surridge  

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afternoon heat
the race caller's voice
keeps rising
jan o'loughlan  

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   ninth tee—
a kookaburra laughs
   in my backswing
john bird 

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fish story
a cormorant spreads its wings
                          w i d e r
lorin ford 

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