Sarah Browning
The New Pope is a White Sox Fan
And that news alone brings
sobs to my sweetheart’s body
just recently made separate
from the body of his Catholic
baseball-loving father.
I don’t know where he ended
and I began, he texts a friend.
The new pope loves the Sox –
the arcs of baseball and life:
nothing happens and then
all of a sudden, it does, blink
and you miss it. If we were
outside our bodies, we could
watch the replay on TV:
see how you made the catch?
See how you’re safe at home.
Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, forthcoming, Killing Summer, and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. Co-founder and 10-year Executive Director of Split This Rock, she now teaches for Writers in Progress. She lives in Philadelphia, where she co-hosts Wild Indigo Poetry. More at: www.sarahbrowning.net