e.g.

(e.g., collecting baseball cards: the champion '66,
instinctly taking off and darting after flys and coming home

with one, with something you can memorize, the final
batting averages across the backs, and brag about

and feel, as fists inflating in the grip of bats,
and hear, as long ball cracks when rapped against the wall,

and can arrange and rearrange on tables,
handsome images, as you are wont to deal with people,

as you would have dealt with them in ‘66
when tarsal sensitivity was unformed behind the black and orange,

when it frightened, as it frightens you, compelling you to
oriole ahead to twigs, to what you warrant will have worth.)