<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578749" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Twenty-Nine Hand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whaling city, corner of Brownell and Court, <br>a screened in porch masks a red maple card table, <br>A worn deck of Bicycles neatly stacked atop a<br>Scrimshaw-laden cribbage board, <br>straddled by two glasses of bittersweet lemonade.<br>The game begins with Ned Martin's pregnant pauses<br>as Yaz slams one over the Green Monster, <br>and grandpa grins and gives me a wink.<br>His fisherman hands expertly riffle the cards.<br>Little ears perk to chants of ' Louie, Louie, Louie'<br>He pitched three fives, two threes and a Jack of Hearts.<br>Threes to the crib, an eight cut and double skunked again.<br>Another tragic season, the Red Sox get nineteen.<br>Quiet corner, Watson Road<br>old red brick farmhouse, sony TV with surround sound<br>atop a well-aged red maple card table.<br>'Gwenivere, the Green Monster is the wall in left field.'<br>I grin and give her a wink as the Red Sox<br>pitch to her a twenty-nine hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Darlene+Perry">Darlene Perry</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578749" data-title="The Twenty-Nine Hand de Darlene Perry" data-description="Whaling city, corner of Brownell and Court, a screened in porch masks a red maple card table, A worn deck of Bicycles neatly stacked atop a Scrimshaw-laden cribbage board, straddled by two glasses of bittersweet lemonade. The game begins with N..."></div> </div> </div>

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