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Down on the baseball
field, where the rednecks of winter
Left deep ruts in the
grass of the outfield
Slaloming their
four-by-fours at three in the morning,
Engines shrieking their
freedom,
Fat-breasted robins now
take up positions
At precise intervals
along the red trenches
Left by the wheels.
The birds will deprive
Hundreds of earthworms
Of liberty, life, and
their blind pursuit
Among the grassroots
Of dirty, and wet, and
pink
Happiness.
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John DuVal Lawson teaches writing and rhetoric at Robert Morris
University in Pittsburgh. His poems and plays have been published in a
variety of print and online venues including Main Street Rag, Public
Republic, Paper Street, and Uppagus. Generations, a poetry chapbook, was published by St. Andrews
University Press in 2007.