Thursday, June 28, 2007

Baseball

When you tried to tell me
baseball was a metaphor

for life: the long, dusty travail
around the bases, for instance,

to try to go home again;
the Sacrifice for which you win

approval but not applause;
the way the light closes down

in the last days of the season--
I didn't believe you.

It's just a way of passing
the time, I said.

And you said: that's it.
Yes.

--Linda Pastan

3 comments:

ORION said...

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astairesteps said...

Orion,

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Anonymous said...

wht does the "the way the light closes down" part mean?