The Deep Eros of Memory
Five english-language “Haiku” (the 5-7-5 / elementary school variety) inspired by these photographs of baseball players. Pictures from the endlessly beautiful Library of Congress archive.
A woman in the
bleachers just fell deep in love
with his follow-through.
Sure, my brother has
confidence. But he can’t see
the ball to the bat.
One day in August
you came off the disabled
list ready to just kill.
Grown-ups kept asking
“Are you afraid of the ball?”
She’s all: “ball fears me”
George believed in her;
He once believed in baseball,
but that was before.
Summer Anne Burton is a writer and illustrator living in Austin, Texas. She is drawing pictures of Every Hall of Famer.
#4 is terrific (both photo and haiku)
yes. back when girls and women wore dresses and actually looked like girls and women. beautiful.