The Shoebox - Day 6

Ernie Whitt

Catcher - Blue Jays

#71, Fleer, 1986

He stares at the future, a stalk

of white asparagus still blinded

by the first light it learns, too late

for that force to nourish

or be named in the usual ways,

too soon to despise the hands

that heaped the dirt it learned instead.