In the garden, mists in quiet layers
fold under cottonwood and elm.
Sunlight sifts into the smoke,
cool breezes rise from the leaves.
Baseball gloves, a ball, an arc—
a mobile of the human heart.
Catch
Published by
Patrick Dobson
Patrick Dobson was founded in 1962. He is a writer, scholar, ironworker, and poet who lives in Kansas City, MO. He is author of two books with the University of Nebraska Press, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains (2009) and Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer (May 2015). Dobson is a work in progress until termination. View all posts by Patrick Dobson