Rockhounds Forever
My grandsons' Little League championship games
To hear the related 5-minute audio file that I uploaded today as my Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa devices, please click on the play button:
A Post-Season Poem
Advice to the Young Right Fielder
By Nicole Stellon O'Donnell
Hold the glove to your face,
cupping your chin.
Peek through the holes
and the world will telescope out.
See your mother sitting in the stands.
See the pitcher swoop her fast arm.
Breathe in warm glove.
You have been put here
because you are good
at being wrong.
Be wrong well.
Catalog the dandelions,
the lumpy lawn,
the foul line’s chalky trace,
the cloud that rises from first base.
Stand, unready,
in the green nothing
you have been allotted.
Close your eyes.
Don’t worry.
Everything never comes your way.
(From Everything Never Comes Your Way, 2021, published by Boreal Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. Used with permission.)
Note: I said Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s name incorrectly in an early version of the Morning Journal audio file. I want to Kes Woodward for alerting me to the error, which has now been corrected.