Baseball Haiku

Baseball Haiku

By Richard Jordan

Painting by Sam Williams

fastball
clanks off the backstop—
ice cream truck
 
 
 
record heat
even a pop fly
to center takes it slow
 
 
 
nursing home
on good days grandpa curses
Bucky Bleeping Dent
 
 
 
kids in the bleachers
resurrect a wave—
down to the final out

Richard Jordan is a Ph.D. mathematician who also writes poetry. He has been published in Tar River Poetry, Redivider, The Atlanta Review, upstreet, Verse Daily and elsewhere. His favorite number is 27. That’s right–Carlton Fisk.

Sam Williams is a cartoonist, comics publisher and baseball enthusiast based in Bournemouth, UK.


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