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when we read words like [a meadow of flowers beginning spring] the part of our brain that processes smell and our sensory center make very little distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real time

here is a soft light of the sun as you like at the end of a good day

here is the same light in a morning on a different day coming through those perfect corner windows elongated on the wood floors of our first apartment together while we lived in Denver

that love that grew inside us had become more love

one feels the need to speak it in different ways

to tell it over

in the limits of words love speaks in the face of looking on

Jack Buck

Jack C Buck Online Book Release – Gathering View

Join us for the online release of Jack C Buck’s new book, Gathering View, published by Punch Drunk Press, on May 24th.

Here is the link to the event on fb:

https://www.facebook.com/events/179289966234121/

Gathering View is a thematic collection of nearly 70 poems on the meditations of football in fall; enduring and embracing a long winter; and the coming of spring with its hopes and possibilities.

A week after the 9/11 terrorism attacks, legendary baseball broadcaster Jack Buck delivered a speech, highlighted by the following poem, at a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. One of the most beautiful moments in sports history, this poem and the ensuing game illustrated the healing power of sports in our lives. Since this nation…

Can’t wait for tomorrow!