The other day a friend grabbed a dog-eared collection of John Donne’s poetry – a 30-year-old graduate school relic – tucked into my bookcase. My late professor, a leading scholar of metaphysical poetry and an acclaimed published poet himself, had written the book’s authoritative introduction. Yet all that remains with me is his passion for playing slow-pitch softball, something he often weaved into his Donne lectures. One semester he batted over .600.
My friend, looking up from the pages, asked: “You’ve kept it ever since?”
“Yup,” I said. “That and a profound longing to feel – about anything – like he did about softball.”
Bing Miller is a public high school English teacher who, in a previous life, worked as a daily newspaper reporter. Lately he's been trying his hand writing flash. This is his first piece of published writing since his newspaper heyday in the 1990s.
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