Wednesday Night Lights

90's in May,
and traffic
become worth it
for baseball.

A new team,
new park,
new uniforms
passed around,
navigating towards
field 3.

Three is the number
of runs batted in
by Murray
in the last frame
of the first
and we were sitting
pretty in Acworth.

But the other team
has come to play
and hit and field, too.
They are also twelve,
unseasoned
imperfect
and the game begins to sway
back and forth
between the bases.

Parents stand
sit
shuffle

The game seems to slip away
but
Mashman, Thilo, Buechner, Moore
Andrews, Hammond and Purdy
have a different script
and follow
it home.