the iguana is a huge baseball fan

the iguana is a huge baseball fan

By Brendan Walsh

it’s the best thing you people ever did,
he bounces his head up&down the way
iguanas do when they’re swallowing
or just really happy. he watches games

through the windows of the Dominican
family across the street, perched on low
royal poinciana branches, his couch.
he’s mesmerized by the stillness, then bam,

they swing, throw, run. it’s like something scares them.
the grass looks nice, too. i could lay for hours
in left field and no one would realize.
he’s loves the marlins, but it’s all the same

who wins or loses. it’s still sun and field.

Brendan Walsh has lived and taught in South Korea, Laos, and South Florida. His work has recently appeared in Rattle, Glass Poetry, Indianapolis Review, American Literary Review, Baltimore Review, Maine Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and other journals. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including ‘Buddha vs. Bonobo’ (Sutra Press) and ‘fort lauderdale’ (Grey Book Press). His latest collection, ‘concussion fragment’, winner of the 2020 elsewhere chapbook contest, was released in February 2022. He is co-host of the Fat Guy, Jacked Guy podcast with Stef Rubino. He’s online at brendanwalshpoetry.com. His Instagram is @brendanwalshy and twitter is @bwalshpoetry.

Michaela Paulson is an art conservator currently researching the optimal methods for the care and preservation of feathers and feathered cultural heritage materials at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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