I was maybe 13
during that last

run when Dad 
snagged the rare 

tickets from a fellow
sales guy. All

I remember is
his green head

bobbing across
the court, a dot

on a stat sheet,
the light Gatsby

leaned toward,
the rock MJ palmed

from Carmen’s
bed, dragging him

back to practice—
his triangled

strides churning 
the glassy wood.

SANDRA MARCHETTI's second full-length collection of poems, AISLE 228, will be published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in April 2023. She is the author of Confluence, a full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications, and four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her sports literature appears in Blackbird, Southwest Review, Barrelhouse, FanGraphs, Poet Lore, Baseball Prospectus and elsewhere. Sandy is the former poetry editor of River Styx Magazine and she is currently the coordinator of tutoring services at the College of DuPage in Chicagoland.