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Baseball and Writing
Suggested by post-game broadcasts
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- Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting
- and baseball is like writing.
  
  You can never tell with either
  
  how it will go
  
  or what you will do;
- pitcher, catcher, fielder, batter.
- Who is excited? Might it be I?
- Shorn of the batting crown
- "We";
  
  robbed by a technicality
- When three players on a side play three positions
  
  and modify conditions,
  
  the massive run need not be everything.
- snares what was speeding towards its treetop nest,
  
  one-handing the souvenir-to-be
  
  meant to be caught by you or me.
- He is no feather. "Strike! . . . Strike two!"
  
  Fouled back. A blur.
  
  It's gone. You would infer
  
  that the bat had eyes.
- Those two magnificent saves from the knee-throws
  
  by Boyer, finesses in twos--
  
  like Whitey's three kinds of pitch and pre-
  
  diagnosis
  
  with pick-off psychosis
- our arm, too true at first, can learn to
  
  catch your corners--even trouble
  
  Mickey Mantle.
- With some pedagogy,
  
  you'll be tough, premature prodigy.)
- They crowd him and curve him and aim for the knees. Trying
  
  indeed! The secret implying:
  
  "I can stand here, bat held steady."
- Muscle kinks, infections, spike wounds
  
  require food, rest, respite from ruffians. (Drat it!
  
  Celebrity costs privacy!)
- Studded with stars in belt and crown,
  
  the Stadium is an adastrium.

Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - The Paper Nautilus

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Paper Nautilus
For authorities whose hopes

are shaped by mercenaries?

Writers entrapped by

teatime fame and by

commuters' comforts? Not for these

the paper nautilus

constructs her thin glass shell.
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- the watchful
  
  maker of it guards it
  
  day and night; she scarcely
  
  eats until the eggs are hatched.
- her glass ram'shorn-cradled freight
  
  is hid but is not crushed;
  
  as Hercules, bitten
  
  by a crab loyal to the hydra,
  
  was hindered to succeed,
- the intensively
  
  watched eggs coming from
  
  the shell free it when they are freed
- as if they knew love
  
  is the only fortress
  
  strong enough to trust to

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