Koufax

When they say
life is a book: believe it.
On one page
I watch my first
major league game,
Giants losing 11 to 1
to the Dodger ace.
On another page I’m 
with Jacob Weisman in
an Ethiopian restaurant on
Valencia Street,
quietly joyful that
my new publisher
has a canine 
staff member named
after the legendary leftie.
–Michael Cadnum