It's amazing to think, speeding
down this six lane highway at 75 mph,
that fastballs launched by the likes
of Randy Johnson, Goose Gossage and
Nolan Ryan could be passing by me left,
right, and wildly overhead at 95 or 108 mph,
each pitch lost in the peripheral blink of an eye,
the seasoned batter facing such speed usually
dead in the batter's box, reflexes no match for
pure heat, and a check swing about as likely
as finding oneself in the fast lane, and
suddenly stopping on a dime.
G. O. Clark's writing has been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog,, Space & Time, A Sea Of Alone: Poems For Alfred Hitchcock, Tales Of The Talisman, Daily SF, Jupiter (GB) and many other publications. He's the author of eleven poetry collections, the most recent, "Gravediggers' Dance", 2014, Dark Renaissance Books. He's the author of two fiction collections, "The Saucer Under My Bed & Other Stories", published in 2011, Sam's Dot, and, "Twists & Turns", 2016, Alban Lake Publishing. He won the Asimov's Readers Award for poetry in 2001, and has been Rhysling finalist and Stoker Award nominee. He's retired, and lives in Davis, CA.
