Write a short paragraph in which you evaluate what makes the poem effective and give your opinion of the
poem overall.
It was in an en
Ringed by elmurand honeysuckle.
Bill Corson we pitching in his buckskin jacket,
Chuck Keller, fat even as a boy, was on first,
His t-shirt riding up over his gut,
Ron O'Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it up
In the field, a blue sky above them
Tipped with cirrus.
And there I was
Just off the plane and plopped in the middle
of Williamsport, Pa and a neighborhood game,
Unnatural and without any moves
My motions of baseball and America
Growing farier each time I whiffed.
So it was not impossible that I
Banished to the outfield and daydreaming
Of water, or a hotel in the mountains
Woman find me in the math