7 Baseball Haiku at Camden Yards

Haiku

Sep 29

Baseball and haiku go together like reading incentive programs and free Personal Pan Pizza. (Fellow 90s kids, you know what I’m talking about.) I moved away from Maryland after high school, so when I got the chance to attend a Baltimore Orioles game in 2016, I wrote this haiku sequence to commemorate the visit.

wild foul ball
the third-base coach
casually ducks

home run ball:
caught!
the sound of
disappointed fans

swinging strike!
the batter
adjusts his gloves

pop fly to the press box
pieces of a laptop

home team trails
by 11 runs
the crowd
thins
out

postgame fireworks
the stands twinkle
with phone flashes

after the game
the black bat flutters
over the dark infield