Wings
Trea Turner scores
from second
on Bryce Harper:
Smith singles
to right field,
Turner rounds third
on green light,
approaching home,
launches
the most exquisite slide,
impossibly smooth,
as if on air,
on ice,
crosses the plate
just ahead of
the striving
arriving ball,
thrown on an almost
perfect line.
Then the popup ballet,
effortless effort,
like the Nichols brothers
tap dancing
to Kalamazoo;
and for a finale:
dust off, depart,
a backward glance
in lieu of bow,
leaving Bryce
to wonder how
Trea could have scored
those wings.