Tales from the Crucible #2: Stephen Hendry's Shardigan

In the studio Steve Davis
looks lost in a reverie,
remembering Romford romances
from his increasingly distant yute

while to his right
Stephen Hendry seems to have won
some kind of sartorial bet.

Is it a shirt?
Is it a cardigan?
Monochromatic and magnificent.
He always had his own style,
on and off the table.

The Samuel Beckett camera
speedily zooms in on his mush.
He says
Let's live life withoot labels
and
Let's not beat aboot the bush.

B.R. 16/04/2017