The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 4/16/2007)

[RetroLounge]

The Faithful

You'd think they're Jesuits, the way
they cross themselves at every turn.
I wonder what it is they pray
about: to get a hit, to earn
a run, to knock one past the fence?
But I'm off base. They exercise
their faith—they know; those supplicants,
you don't trade prayers for RBI's.

That's more than me. Battered, I'd try
that hurried gesture as a call
to be delivered, slow and high,
a pitch to send out toward the wall.
I'd ask for that one RBI
and wonder at its rise and fall.

Midge Goldberg

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Midge Goldberg was born in 1964, grew up in Florida, and moved to New England to attend Yale University. A software designer for 16 years, she received an MFA from the University of New Hampshire in 2006 and teaches poetry at Chester College of New England. Her poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, Measure, Yankee, Dogwood, and other national journals. She lives in Derry, NH, with her two children. Flume Ride is her first book of poetry.

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RL

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good morning, my dear Retro!

Hmmm...nice imagery!

I guess she's talking about baseball, huh?

I love the way the second stanza rhymes so gracefully too...

Thank you...:hug: