Poems of the Week

In a Pickle

by Alex Steelsmith

“[T]he most grating and disruptive sound in the entire athletic ecosystem right now might be
the staccato
pop-pop-pop emanating from America’s rapidly multiplying pickleball courts.”
The New York Times

Poppity
pickleball!
Eardrums can’t
hack it.

Newfangled
sport, it is
played with
a racket.