Still Life

by Paul Kocak

That cinnamon voice
Ricocheting in the clubhouse
Keeping things loose
On the bench
And in the bleachers
No matter the score

Mays’ cinnamon spirit
Sprinkled on summer’s
Long afternoons
Les Keiter on WINS
Me with the transistor
San Francisco an eternity away

You never left
I wouldn’t let you
The Giants fled
I stayed
Your cap flying off
Still

Paul Kocak is the author of Chasing Willie Mays: Chronicles of a Fan Left Behind.

 

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