OPTIONAL POETRY

{postseason} Strike, clutch, wind-up, ball, infield outfield, warning-track, wall— Nothing so simple, really, standing room only, it’s what we discussed: 87, not 88, a final win and yet a loss. We need another bat, a decent response to something that was months in the making, regret defeated in the face of too many places where it could have gone wrong— 1-6-3, 3-6-4, bunt, balk, error, walk, a path diverged again and again— or emerged, if […]