Showing posts with label Catcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catcher. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2016

Calling the Game


Like Pudge.
Like Bench.

Like Yogi.

Opening Day
on the glistening green

shimmering
diamond,

with dirt under his nails

he scoops
the ball
from his mitt,

tosses back to the ace,

crouches,
gives signal,
waits

for the curve

of his smile,
and spits

o - u - t.


© 2016 Jennifer Wagner



Opening Day 2016. Go M's!
photo © 2016 Jennifer Wagner


A Quadrille poem for dVerse. Exactly 44 words (title excluded), including the word “shimmer” (or variant as I've used here).