Baseball After Dark
Rent from DeepDyve- Baseball After Dark
Night games possessed a special mystery.They were intimate, via the little radiomy brother cradled in his bed, the announcer'svoice sharing secrets. Changing pitchers.We can deal with these matters, after dark.
Into the summer night we listened, a voicekeeping us close to the action. Baseballwould give us satisfaction, all through July,our armor against heat and humidity,losses, invasions, injuries to heroes.
A bridge. We listened to the gamesalmost every night. Players might fail,drop the ball, bumble the play, but we lovedthem anyway, we listened until the gameescaped. We slept, content with promises.
Mary Herbert is originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where as a child she heard Harry Carey announce Cardinals games. She now lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches literature courses at Long Island University and roots for the Mets. Her poems have appeared in NINE and Elysian Fields Quarterly, among other journals, and in Line Drives, an anthology of baseball poetry published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her work has garnered several awards, and six collections of her poems have been published by Ginninderra Press in Australia.
