Fenway Park

Fenway Park

By Barbara Varanka

All triangles and memory
signpost green on grass green
on a blue-black night
 
when the floodlights blind
as you admire the green tower
from Beacon Street and its alleyways
 
2004 was your confetti frenzy introduction
cheap August bleacher seats
you’ve worshipped from a hundred angles
 
learned to keep score at a standing rail
conquered the monster with a hot dog
in hand and avoided a ball to the face
 
in the front row on opening day
and always that red-orange sign
glowing like a lighthouse
 
beckoning you back to Kenmore
all triangles and memory

Barbara Varanka‘s work has appeared in Booth, Moon City Review, Jet Fuel Review, Kawsmouth, and elsewhere. She serves as a poetry editor for Bear Review, and lives and works in Kansas City. She is a loyal Royals fan, but Fenway Park is her favorite place in the entire world.

William Scherbarth is six years old. He lives in Birmingham, MI. His biggest inspiration is Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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