Spring Meditation

Kevin Miller's Spring Meditation is a tribute to baseball in poetry--the majors, the minors, the players, the coaches. It's also a poetic memoir of a life lived with baseball in the foreground.

A Picture of Eudora Welty

This is the March that follows no winter.

Already mosquitoes own left field.

A new kid wants to pitch but not attend class.

A legend from Spokane signs for thirty-one million.

Welty knows about cheap seats;

she knows a story will save our lives.

Stories keep us young.

Give me the ri...