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Crowd (Phillies game): photo by Mike Ashley (jacreative), 29 May 2007
At the moment I entered the baseball stadium
a huge crowd ovation went up
and I found myself imagining it was for me
and my latest poem, for a split second our
and my latest poem, for a split second our
culture had shifted drastically and was
capable of cheering a poet and his poor tropes,
capable of cheering a poet and his poor tropes,
thrilled at the ultimate victory of words of light
over the sleep of the human species,
overjoyed and eager to cheer the exact image
..and the sudden ecstatic flight of the soul
......for the good of all.
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: Baseball Stadium Epiphany, from The Puzzle, 2011
Crowd, Philadelphia: photo by Brandon Blattner (masemase), 9 October 2008