baseball, a memory
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Baseball, a MemoryAuthor(s): Thomas McCarthySource: New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), p. 49Published by: University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20557602 .
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Thomas McCarthy
Filiocht Nua: New Poetry
BASEBALL, A MEMORY
The evening is heavy with final papers
these seven grey days in early May.
Clouds hang about the weakened sky
like unsigned Twins. I watch my daughter,
a free agent, pitch wildly from the mound.
She throws the ball like a scholar?
the sporting nonchalance of a child.
There is so much politics in her little fist
that the gesture is a translation, something
other and abstract. She does not give up
her meaning easily, the way a father would,
without a glove, on a Minnesota afternoon.
NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW/lRIS ?IREANNACH NUA, 3:4 (wINTER/GEIMHREADH, 1999), 49~55
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