Spring Meditation

Kevin Miller's Spring Meditation is a tribute to baseball in poetry--the majors, the minors, the players, the coaches. It's also a poetic memoir of a life lived with baseball in the foreground. A Picture of Eudora Welty This is the March that follows no winter. Already mosquitoes own left field. A new kid wants to pitch but not attend class. A legend from Spokane signs for thirty-one million. Welty knows about cheap seats; she knows a story will save our lives. Stories keep us young. Give me the right woman in a porch rocker over any experienced bull pen.