Old Man Throwing a Ball by David Baker : American Life in Poetry #258 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

This marks the fourth time we’ve published a poem by David Baker, one of my favorite writers. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, and teaches at Denison University. He is also the poetry editor for the distinguished Kenyon Review. Old Man Throwing a Ball

He is tight at first, stiff, stands there atilt