NIGHT BASEBALL

NIGHT BASEBALL

By Julianna McCarthy

Artwork by Scott Bolohan

it was getting there right after work
it was two innings played in the dusk
it was lights coming on in the third    
it was moon rise in the sixth
and starlight after the game
and walking out of the circle of lights
and driving home past bedtime
and getting undressed in the dark
and watching the game on the ceiling
and winning and winning and winning

Julianna McCarthy is an award-winning poet based in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, American Journal of Poetry, Catamaran, Best Poem, Nimrod, Hole in the Head and others. Her chapbook EVERYTHING HURTS was released by Latitude 34 Press, an earlier chapbook PHOTOPLAY was released by Finishing Line Press. Blue Horse Press just published her first collection Night Surgery.