I See America

Photo by Jordan Rowland on Unsplash

Nine pint-sized players take positions on America’s diamond. Different colors, sizes, languages, and origins.

Throw, catch, pitch, hit.

Respecting each other, their coach, the game. For ninety minutes united to win. Something soon turns them into men. Graduates, fathers, workers, dropouts.

Throwing jabs, catching breaks, pitching lives, hitting fists.

United or divided by the example set. Our future, these boys we’ve made.

This is a 62-word sestude from an exercise I did with the Dark Angels Advanced Writing Course. As always, constraints breed creativity and I particularly like how these few sentences depict big ideas. The prompt was “What I see now…”