Below you will find a small sample of some of my poems.  Click on the title to read the poem!  Scroll down and read them all!
 
 
 
Read Excerpt from my novel, Beanball!
 
 
 

Sample poems from the book The Silly Side of Sports

bullet
bullet
bullet
bullet
bullet

Sample poems from the book When Main Street Was One Block Long

bullet Coloring Outside the Lines
bulletSeeing Grandma
bulletRibbon of Letters
bulletIn the Back Seat

Sample poems from the book Center Field Grasses:
 
bullet Backyard Glory
bullet Error, Little League
bullet
bullet Reese and Rizzuto

Sample parodies from the book  Center Field Grasses:

bullet
But I Was One-and-Twenty (A.E. Housman: "When I Was One-and-Twenty")
bullet
Ebbets Field (Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Old Ironsides")
bullet
To My Fans, on Becoming a Free Agent (Richard Lovelace, "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars")

Sample poems from the book Dancing on the Basepaths:

 
bullet From Part One (Untitled)
bullet From Part Two:  Marking the Lines
bullet From Part Three (Clerihew)

Sample Poems from the book Let the Poems Begin!

 
bullet
bullet
bullet
bullet
bullet
 
Sample poems from the book I Hit the Ball!
 
bullet
bullet

Sample poems from the book Breaking into a Smile:

bullet
bullet
bullet
bullet
bullet

Misc. Poems

bullet Another April will Come
bulletBoxes
bulletNew Breath
bulletOur Town
bulletStaying in Line