Red Sox can’t lose
cat’s summer nap on couch
unaffected
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20 July 2026
Charlottesville VA
Category: Baseball
Ballpark
We sat for the anthem,
stood for the Sox,
liberated our hot dogs,
met some Mainers,
cheered for the runs,
laughed at the hecklers,
awwwwed at the kids,
drove back home.
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26 April 2026
Charlottesville VA
Day 26 of National Poetry Month
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It hasn’t been my favorite day.
So it’s a Red Sox podcast in bed.
My eyes are burning from overuse
& lack of sleep, but for some reason
I’m still awake, fielding a few
nighttime texts & thinking of
the day pitchers & catchers report.
I thought this would be the year
I’d take a break from baseball,
having seen one too many favorites
decamp for greener pastures.
But it hasn’t been my favorite day
& the days ahead are hard to see,
so instead I’ll turn this coal
into a diamond in my mind,
imagining the heroic young men
squinting into the Boston sun.
It’s a math problem, a Bach piece,
a well-loved album playing
softly as I search for sleep.
It hasn’t been my favorite day.
Play ball.
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10 February 2023
State College PA
a day full of long ehxales
the animal under the ribs
the next batter steps up
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26 July 2022
State College PA
up here in Vermont
I can listen to the Sox
on the radio
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3 June 2021
Greensboro Bend VT