I have torn up the boy whose baseball
You are signing again.
He was beautiful,
As you are, Brooks Robinson,
As you lean your name back, a... more

It's their first practice in good spring weather,
not only not raining, not cold, but full of light.

good game
good game
good game

Blessed be the millwrights on the open hearth that awaited him; the nurses and elevator operators; secretaries; plumbers; electricians

The solitude. In the summer, I dine. On hot dogs. And fast balls. Go Dodgers!

The spring we didn’t make love,
I started following baseball—

radio on the kitchen table,
me in that old night... more

I joined the crowd and bought an XL.

1. What company made the gum drops called Fancy Nancies after the famous Beantown slugger duo?  

And everyone in section ten is standing

Everyone was welcome. No one was cut 
in this league.

I practically worship, use
to fill an empty life.

Evan, in a cheap hotel room...

"Whipped" and "Kansas"

We are fifteen as haev no idea
what our bodies can do...

In the dark before sleep...

get a tattoo of a horse
because you feel good about yourself

"Poetry," "Cleaning the House," and "Leaving Again"

"Friendship & Other Unknowable Places" and "Diagnosis at the Walk-in Clinic"

"Train People" and "Leaving Philadelphia"

"I Have No Idea How Tall I Am," "Corner Table," "Everyone Says Things Like," and "In the Future Every Olympian Will Be Gay"

"First Letter to David" and "On Wanting to Be Loved"

All the Meg Johnsons
would like to kill me

I’m in conversation with Helen Dudley about “Reed-Song” 
her poem published in Poetry, 1915.

All day Iphigenia 
so far from the man I came to see.
Haven’t we tired of famous men? Shouldn’t I 
have my shoulders back, chin... more

17.
 

He who left home built the biggest steel bridge over the long river

The bridge was a... more