the gift of a trick pitch
is that it lands in the glove
and solves for swinging sticks
at this juncture in Jimmy’s life
he’d never got a letter out of the blue,
but his were answered in time.
before getting plugged
(a musket ball was his downfall)
Jimmy gently lifted a stone with the tip of his moccasin
stirring brown beetles and grubs.
cockroaches caught in the act under
the stained box that remains
of letters and tchotchkes
the game ball presented to him
from Nathan James
Longstreet, reenactment friend
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