Matt Harvey serves first verse at Wimbledon

The official Wimbledon poet Matt Harvey has served the first of his daily tourney poems. Here's a peek at "thwok":

thwok

a game in the life

bounce bounce bounce bounce
thwackety wackety zingety ping
hittety backety pingety zang
wack, thwok, thwack, pok
thwikety, thwekity, thwokity, thwakity
cover the court with alarming alacrity
smackety dink, smackety dink
boshety bashity crotchety crashety
up loops a lob with a teasing temerity
leaps in the air in defiance of gravity
puts it away with a savage severity
coupled with suavity
nice
15-love
(reaches for towel with a certain serenity)

Poems will be featured daily through July 4th on the website of the Poetry Trust.