2022, baseball, everyday words, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, sports

why there is poetry in baseball and no mercy in either

watched a college kid pitch
one perfect inning in a snow squall

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, untitled series 2 (2022)

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run:

is an early Spring? or
another fool’s season?
all hope resides on grass diamonds
a lone player in the outfield
squinting at the sun

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, untitled series 2 (2022), work

17.

sequence: baseball

[]/[] testing take us out
but not before home plate imprints
like digital currency on cotton blend

distract / redeem us in these moments
when the machine mind is unspooling
and all we have is a stick: DOS dreams

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