- Mina Kirby
Cricket in a Cage
Golden cricket ~
I have seen you
in the dewy grass
or on a warm rock
where the sun dried your wings
Sadness fills me
seeing you now
caged for all time
as entertainment
for princes
- Chris Wesley
Autumn gloom
disperses
pierced by bowed melodies
crying freedom.
My Jiao Ge-Ge
have jumped and scattered
out of their cricket cages
and my grasp.
Their emancipator,
my child,
giggles in the corner.