The Left Field Blues

...living with his grandparents’, endlessly alone.

The Left Field Blues

His mind was floating in the acres of sky.
As he stood in the center of the flooded green.
He was young enough to think about the future,
old enough to wonder about where he’s been. 

As he traced the contrails of a distant jet,
he wondered how far it was to his city home.
All that yelling and then a chasm of silence,
living with h…