Another ode to the Sox

Posted to the Bosox mailing list, another poem to the Red Sox, as they open up the 2007 World Series tonight in the cool drizzle of Boston:

The Boys of Autumn
 
Home of the great green monster
The house that Ruth abandoned
Empty now as the Boys of Autumn
Fly to the mountains,
Trading Indian Summer for Early Winter
Game Three I see in my mind surreal
Twelve inches of fresh snow just plowed from the field
Papi looking like a jolly Santa in his red snowsuit uniform
Manny being Manny to the Colorado press
And Dice K again put to the test
Determined as hell
Tough as an Ipswich claim shell
Wearing his short sleeves and cotton cap despite the chill
Unruffled that the ghost of John Denver sang the National Anthem
The Rockies Organization claiming not to know
That Dice K's mom dated Denver when he was touring Japan
Years ago.
 
At Coors, the air is thin
Back at Fenway, the fog from Boston Harbor
Has moved in
While the Ghosts in the rafters
Wait for word of a win.
 -- Kate Troy