Anne Bradstreet

When composing literary biography,

predictive text takes care of the phrase

‘born a sickly child.’ But the writer’s free

to note details of an albino fox.

It’s not known if Anne Bradstreet played golf,

despite her instrumental role in securing

the plot where golf wear and golf-club manners

would be understood by happy readers.

Baseball is a kind of golf, a kind of

zeppelin race and a kind of arithmetic

that adds the names of horses so hungry

they’ve resorted to eating each others’ tails.

Bradstreet’s wiki reads, ‘America’s first

Houston Astros fan, big-boned futurist,

believed Abner Doubleday a time traveller

out to kill the inventors of football.’