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Daniel V.

The Ideal Field

April’s rain put shimmering drops on the grass,

With the help of powerful lights

spreading out onto the field.

Only the dull, neatly trimmed dirt

makes the baseball

field seem as if it came out of a movie.

Not even movies

can get the grass

the way it looked in April, impersonating baseball

Eden. The lights

so spectacular, they even started to bring the dirt

alive on the field.

The first ball lands on the field,

Violating the fake perfection of the movies

and imprinting the history across the dirt,

With enough force onto the grass.

Where there, the lights

explode the baseball

Into the blinding white, which solely a baseball,

On an empty fresh cut field

can make. With only lights

as strong as the movies.

And only perfect dark grass

with rugged raked dirt

Make a scene like that. The dirt

is stripped with a white chalk, as baseball

marks are common, and the grass

is also unperfected by the players on the field.

All which put aside the comparison to a movie

Because to them it’s an everyday sight, the lights,

the action, the cameras. To them the lights

could be just as important as the dirt.

But the lights are what give the sparkling movie

perfection. Nothing could be compared to baseball

Heaven; the ideal field.

A movie could only be this perfect, something about baseball,

The sight of the lights, and every molecule of dirt

Lined up right to make the field unified with the grass.

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