Catching Baseballs and Poems
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At the ball game, my granddaughterglances up from texting friends:the game in the stands. Eliza's also readingThe Catcher in the Rye, whereHolden worries about writingon his brother's baseball glove.The mitt has poems copied all over it.We wonder which poems might beon the glove, cheer our team's tiny shortstophitting a homer, yell at the first-baseump for calling our runner out. Westand for the seventh-inning stretch,sway, count three strikes you're out.On the way home, she decides she'll findher glove and copy a sonnet on itto quote to me the next time we play catch. [End Page 119]
Earl J. Wilcox's poetry has appeared in The Centrifugal Eye, Word Riot, Charlotte Writers' Club anthologies, Arabesques Review, The Wild Goose Poetry Review, and many other places. He has been an avid St. Louis Cards fan for more than seventy years, and his poetry can be seen on his blog, Writing by Earl.
