Elysian Fields Quarterly - The Baseball Review

BASEBALL POETRY

Spring Training
By Sarah Freligh

Running windsprints in the outfield,
ten eleven twelve times past
the Ramada sign, a blonde
in a red bikini, Fuck
you, pussy spray-painted
across the hills
of her tits, Al bends to get
his breath back, the smell
of just-cut grass reminding him
of the first time he made love.

—EFQ

The poetry and short stories of SARAH FRELIGH, formerly a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, have appeared in Cimarron Review, Third Coast, Iowa Woman, Painted Bride Quarterly, Aethlon, and Comstock Review. "Spring Training" is from her collection in progress entitled Chin Music.

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