"Listening to a Baseball Game"

The smothering heat of a July night
Squats in a second-floor bedroom
And doesn't move despite the desk fan's
Peaceful whir and simulate breeze.
A boy lies on the sheets and reads
A Life magazine which holds
The proper shadow of attention
While he listens to the ballgame
Being played in Kansas City.
He sees it happen and imagines it—
The same things
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—Baron Wormser, from When

Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is reviewed in Rain Taxi.

Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City is reviewed in The Kenyon Review and The Short Review.

Lydia Davis' The Cows is reviewed in Make Magazine.

03-29-2012
Small Fires

Carmichael's Bookstore Crescent Hill Location 2720 Frankfort Avenue Louisville, Kentucky 40206
7:00 pm Reading from Small Fires


Jay Schwandt
(502) 896-6950
http://www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/

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