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Holding court

By Travis R. Wright

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Holding Court

pivot sweat
pick set
on blacktop plateau
no script give
and go

run 'em back

a mid-summer's pickup
play stretched out
laced up
one-on-one
win by two

run 'em back

bound to the key
turn to the wing
swing bottom block
drop step
head fake
who's got next?

run 'em back

who's got game?
baggy swagger
trash trap
crossover kids
weigh net worth
by the bucket
can't buy a bucket

run 'em back

take no offense
no ref reference
just rep on
the foul line
bend 'n' box
out of bounds
check it
stutter step
brick lay
up float or funk
sink to sunk

that's game.

run 'em back

— Travis R. Wright

Special thanks to one-on-one ballers Andrew Clark, 18, and Chris Lewis, 19,and to streetballers Robert Allen, Marcus Jackson, Antonio Johnson, Sick and Ju.

Photos and words shot at and inspired by courts near Eastern Market and at Mack and I-75.

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Travis R. Wright is arts and culture editor of Metro Times. Send comments to twright@metrotimes.com

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