Table of Contents
Autumnal Road 2023 Volume 15, Issue 2
Who’s on First
Baseball Poetry
Matthew Johnson: Colored Ballplayer Grows Impatient; Mike Piazza Brings Some Normalcy to the World
Jeral Williams: KMOX–1120 on your AM Dial
Thomas Reynolds: Sometimes Gods Do Answer Letters
Essays
J.D. Scrimgeour: Kidland
Daniel A. Hill: Is Novak Djokovic Likeable Enough?
Water Works
Steven Church: Float Trip
Heather E. Goodman: After the Upper Lakes
Running Men Poetry
Jim Richards: One Hundred Lines on One Hundred Miles
Scott F. Parker: Note to Self
Rough Stuff
Joshua Hall: How I Learned to Stand and Bang: On Winning and Losing in Combat Sports
Michael Copperman: Winning
Jonathan Holland: Coach Taught Me to Mop
Lance Mason: Fear is Where You Find It
Jack Bedell: Memory: Mercy
SL Football
Peter Stine: About Kickoffs
Rick Burton: Uprights
Bob Vance: 4th and Inches
Poetry
Mark D. Bennion: Pre-Season
D.R. James: Second day of gun season,
Jack Ridl: Sportswriter After Another Game
SL Basketball
Noah Davis: I like to believe
Jack Bedell: Spud Webb
Morgan Christie: Like Mike
Yvonne Zipter: Air Born
Lora Keller: Celestial Collusion; Optimus Prime; Shape Shifter
Winter Musings
Mark Anthony Jarman: Cranks on Planks
Brian Haskell: Ember on Ice
David Ram: Hockey Jersey 18
Sunset Reflections
Michael Graham: Taking it All in Stride
Jan Ball: Exercise 101
Eric Chiles: Flog golf
Edmond Stevens: The Little Death of October