eellspoems

poetry (and essays) by john eells

Catch Again

Posted by restorel66 on July 1, 2009

baseball-playing-catch

I’m ready.  Toss the ball.
Grounders.  Pop-up.
WATCH OUT
FOR THE BABY!

Whoa!  Nice one!
Good arm!  That
knocked the dust
off my mitt!

Whoops, crazy hop!
Hey, switch sides,
I’ve got sunglasses.
Get your glove up.

You throw what
I throw.  Now I’ll
do a jump catch.
That’s too high!

Dad, watch this…
TRICKED YA!
You didn’t even know
I had a tennis ball.

Suppertime?!  Just
one more—I mean
one of each—grounders,
pop-up, fastball.

Do we have to go in?
Okay.  Hey, Dad?
When can we play
catch again?

One Response to “Catch Again”

  1. Marinela said

    Nice poem :) :):)

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