The god he does not believe in has never been more absent. It is not like the time when he thought he saw his father, who had been dead for 20 years, standing in his kitchen in the middle of … Continue reading The sad baseball frog
(Related: Minimalist short fiction starring Adrián Beltré Part I) Adrián Beltré crested the hill in front of Rucker. He scanned the tree-line for the white throat of the buck. That, or the eyes, was what you usually saw first. Nothing moved … Continue reading Minimalist short fiction starring Adrián Beltré, Part II
When you bounded into the pitcher’s arms It now seems too obvious an ascension Of a man who brushed his burst fingers Against the endurable Only when he was ashamed. In the beery afterglow Your words were as pat as … Continue reading For Darrell Porter
He pitched as though he were Throwing fallen apples at a knothole. Then again, he threw fallen apples at a knothole As though he were Throwing fallen apples at a knothole. For there is no mystery in the literal, no … Continue reading Rube Waddell Is Dying
In these distant perches, This tent revival of Oakland pigeons, Cheap of the dollar, rich of the possible, We are ransacking whatever we have Forgotten beneath our larval tongues. Do they not realize that baseball is going on? Sir, does … Continue reading To a photo of two people making out in the upper deck at the 1972 World Series
Have you seen this, friend? I like the looks of it. I am going to Borchert Field. I shall watch them play baseball on donkeys. Part of me — the good part — hopes that the Tripoli Arab Patrol is a patrol made up of Arabs rather than a patrol in search of Arabs to be patrolled. But I’m still going to Borchert Field. I shall watch them play baseball on donkeys. The Tripoli Arab Patrol is world-famous throughout Shrinedom, so it can’t be all bad. I’m told a band will play. I enjoy a good Sousa march. I’ll hope … Continue reading I shall watch them play baseball on donkeys
Sorry, Bobo Polaroids or whatever the fuck your name is, but Brian Harper is going to have to take this call. It might be regarding the waterfront development project, or it might be regarding one of the countless opportunities for … Continue reading Banknotes Harper Is Going to Have to Take This Call
Charlie Manuel packs his shotgun shells with loose-leaf tobacco. That way it just stings a little. Charlie Manuel once benched all of West Virginia for not hustling. While Loretta Lynn is rightly known as the “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Charlie Manuel … Continue reading Charlie Manuel
I’m telling you, Simmons, those days! Your tresses plunged like the Bellwether stocks of the times. Like the necklines of those Who tottered for your notice. We shan’t survive these times, said wartime leaders! We shan’t survive Ted Simmons And … Continue reading Several exclamations regarding Ted Simmons
Moundsman Eric Berger has a mustache. Let us crush the uprising. Let us check our chained pocket watch before signing the railroad deed. Let us agree not to speak of the colonel’s history of ravishment. Let our wives die in … Continue reading Moundsman Eric Berger has a mustache
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