Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Mary Kennan Herbert - "Night Baseball, 1947"

Enos Slaughter in left field
Musial in right field
the pitcher
warming up to the sound
of my brother's heartbeat
my father's voice
it is a lost July night in St. Louis
and my dress flutters behind me
as we run to catch a streecar
after the game

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