Distortion — Blackbird Archive

← v17n2, Fall 2018

I won’t forget listening

to a Brewers game

as the sun sunk over

the jack pine ridges

of the Upper Peninsula.

The signal glowed

fainter with each ray

disappearing. I was

northing with Bob Uecker

and when the light

dimmed well past nine,

Milwaukee was losing

and so was I, winking

slow across the shoreline,

my ears wrecked in the static

of a bobblehead giveaway.

place solitude

Sandra Marchetti

Sandra Marchetti is the author of the poetry collection Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015), as well as four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays, including Heart Radicals (About Editions, 2018), Sight Lines (Speaking of Marvels Press, 2016), A Detail in the Landscape (Eating Dog Press, 2014), and The Canopy (Midwest Writing Center, 2012) . Her poetry has appeared in Ecotone , Poet Lore , River Styx , and Subtropics , among others. She earned her MFA in poetry from George Mason University and serves as the coordinator of tutoring services at the College of DuPage. Photo by Scott Semple