Michael Estabrook
Baseball
I overhear her consoling her daughter
after she strikes out "better to have swung and missed
than never to have swung at all"
and I swear I could hear Tennyson groaning
as he rolled over and over in his grave.
Bio
Coalition of cheetahs, clutch of chickens, colony of bats, caravan of camels, cast of crabs, crash of rhinos, congregation of alligators . . . and what might be the best appellation applied to a gathering of poets? Convocation? Cluster? Chattering? Collection? Clutter? No, no, perhaps cacophony would be the most apt descriptor. Anyway, Michael Estabrook is one of the cacophony, his latest collection of poems being Bouncy House, edited by Larry Fagin (Green Zone Editions, 2016).