Garrett J. Brown​

Read the essay in

The Black Warrior Review Issue 39.2

"But while I had learned, from the long yellow bleachers of Memorial Stadium, to pick off Eddie Murray kicking dirt out of his spikes at first base, I had never learned how to identify a constellation, or to distinguish a planet or comet from other astronomical phenomenon.  Still, I was baffled that—when the sky was dark, and the date was right, and the time was right, and the direction that we were facing was right, when every variable seemed to be accounted for—my prey failed to appear."

from: "Galileo in the Uecker Seats"