batting cage nets
catching only
the dawn wind
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Chad Lee Robinson
Chad Lee Robinson's haiku and related poetry have appeared in over fifty print and online journals and numerous anthologies. His haiku have won many awards, including a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation, a Modern Haiku Award, a Readers' Choice Poem of the Year Award at The Heron's Nest, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. He is the author of two haiku chapbooks, Pop Bottles (True Vine Press, 2009) and Rope Marks (Snapshot Press, 2012). You can read Rope Marks for free at www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks.htm. A third chapbook, The Deep End of the Sky, won the Turtle Light Press Chapbook Contest in 2014, and will be published by the press in late spring 2015. Follow Chad's blog at http://dakotaku.wordpress.com View all posts by Chad Lee Robinson
dawn
autumn's desires
deepen
Good to see your work here Chad!
Alan
first gone grand slam —
her father retrieves the ball
for a keepsake
First published spring 04' in Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine
Wonderful poems!
dawn
wiping the blood
off his baseball bat
above the Polo Grounds the sound of rain
boarded-up ball park
a dust devil swirls along
a baseline
I had to look up 'batting cage' (no baseball played in Northern Ireland!) and I was immediately filled with melancholy as I remembered playing rounders in the park opposite my grandmother's house with my cousins. Amazing how memories come flooding back because of something I'd never heard of! Thank you. :]