Sometimes I merely sit in one place and dream of greatness rather than attempting it. Heh!
Sam White is the pen name of Bob Thomas, whom I've written about in my recently published memoir, A Marvelous Paranoia. Bob lives in Ashland, Oregon, where we met at Southern Oregon College in 1969.
A great Dodgers fan, Sam White integrates baseball and his love of poetry into a fine comparison of two difficult tasks--writing well and bunting.
Untitled
green
dark green
almost blue
grass by
a dried
riverbed
LORCA
RIMBAUD
WHITMAN
SPICER
walked each
side
the middle of
the cracked bed
the cracked bed
the poet
leaves his words
visions to
flow
Lorca drew his sword
Rimbaud drew his sword
Whitman drew his sword
Spicer drew his bat
hit the cycle
and his last time
up
laid down
poetry's perfect bunt
resting on the
the thirdbase chalk line
motionless
real______________O___
Sam White
TS
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