Spring Meditation

<p>Kevin Miller's <em>Spring Meditation</em> is a tribute to baseball in poetry--the majors the minors the players the coaches. It's also a poetic memoir of a life lived with baseball in the foreground. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>A Picture of Eudora Welty</strong></p><p><br></p><p>This is the March that follows no winter.</p><p>Already mosquitoes own left field.</p><p>A new kid wants to pitch but not attend class.</p><p>A legend from Spokane signs for thirty-one million.</p><p>Welty knows about cheap seats;</p><p>she knows a story will save our lives.</p><p>Stories keep us young.</p><p>Give me the right woman in a porch rocker</p><p>over any experienced bull pen.</p>