Ira Joe Fisher’s P-06877-etry - "a baseball field... the church of fatherhood"

Welcome to another "P-06877-etry” feature where Ridgefield’s second Poet Laureate, Ira Joe Fisher, shares his poetic prowess with HamletHub readers!


One June Day

A baseball field glows from sun,

from sneakered feet

and is the church of fatherhood.

A child – boy, girl – romps over the grass

as green as a dream dreamed in summer.

My father watched my play

and I watched my daughter and sons play

in the lush, leafy, lingering-ever sun

of summer and June and fathering.  A gift.

A gift that lives in remembering.

A gift given from some high place

to lift the heart and show its love

on a sacred, holy baseball field

…one June day.

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Submitted by Ira Joe Fisher

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