Pods

Pods

By Sandra Marchetti

A man spits juice
as his grimed thumb
prepares another chaw.
The woman with him
 
tries the next snack
to see what pleases her.
We come here
to forget together.
 
My father beside
me barely exists.
The crowd’s murmur
sounds like glitter
 
falling, sealing each
of us. I’m Venus
on an elevator
to the upper deck
 
then the roof,
cloud climbing
while the organist
plays The Drifters.

Sandra Marchetti is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Aisle 228, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2023), and Confluence from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Sandy’s baseball poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Baseball Prospectus, Southwest Review, FanGraphs, and elsewhere. Her prose on the game can be found at Barrelhouse, Fansided, Hobart, and Pleiades. Sandra is the former Poetry Editor at River Styx Magazine. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage in the Chicagoland area.

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