by Stephen Jones
I know, it’s early in the season
(Hell, it’s only just begun),
But if the new torpedo bat
Is the reason for this rout,
Then the long ball at Yankee Stadium
Is going to be the norm.
“Gamblin’ with My Love” (Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti)
by Dan Bern, with Common Rotation
Phil Whalen, Zen Master, Meets Orlando Cepeda, First Buddhist Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
by Mikhail Horowitz
Does a Baby Bull have Buddha nature?
Not even the wind,
fluttering prayer flags
in the abandoned grandstand,
can say.
Peanuts and popcorn
in your begging bowl,
a pinecone nestled snugly
in your glove.
How many times being hit by a pitch
until you gained enlightenment?
379 homers? Or
379 drops of rain
pelting a temple bell?
Photo by the author’s sister.
Tokyo Series Blues
by Fred Lovato
Opening Day games
not on TV where I live
who here feels my pain?
Fred Lovato is Bardball’s overseas correspondent in Okinawa.
A Suffering Cubs Fan’s Wabi-Sabi
By Dr. Rajesh C. Oza
Japanese concept
Of wabi-sabi captures
Cubs austerity
