Those damn red threads!

TAILINGS FROM CHILDHOOD

Still in Dakota, a boy,

a Yankee fan, cutting up

my baseball cards

pasting them cut-out,

trophies from cigar boxes

(cards treasured by collectors)

showed itself as dreambody,

leading to five scrapbooks

of Yankee lore (including

ads of each player smoking

Camel cigarettes) during

5 championships in the 50s.

These lead to my only lasting

work, daily discipline in notebooks.

Jim Bodeen

14 October 2017