Baseball Haiku
Baseball Haiku
By Richard Jordan
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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