Third Pitch

by Nick Roberts

When you cut a baseball in half
the center looks like a burnt egg
or the burnt center of a heart
placed inside the red stitches.
We will take it out
as perfect as it is and change
nothing except the gold
lettering on the blue covering
and the dark red chunk
like the center of an avocado.

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Nick Roberts is a 27-year old poet, academic, and researcher from Brighton, Massachusetts. His work has been previously featured in La Piccioletta Barca, Black Horse Review, Iris, and The Bangalore Review, and his first chapbook, Quomodo probatur in conflatorio, was recently published by Cathexis Northwest Press. He studied at UMass Boston, where he received his BA and MA in English, focusing on Old English and the poetry of Charles Olson. He currently teaches Social Theory and Writing at Suffolk University.

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