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B. Yeats' "character isolated by deed."</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Harry Humes</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Stadium Traffic</B></div> <bR> <div> You're on your way home</div> <div> when a thousand cars</div> <div> pour onto Broad Street:</div> <div> the ball game's over.</div> <div> No one's going anywhere soon.</div> <div> It's mid-July: eighty and humid.</div> <div> You smell like all the fish in the river,</div> <div> wear the ache of dock crates in your back.</div> <div> Your buddy lost two fingers tonight</div> <div> to a jigsaw: boss said go home early,</div> <div> stay late tomorrow night.</div> <div> These people don't appreciate</div> <div> what they have: time to go to ball games.</div> <div> You get out among blaring horns </div> <div> and vendors hawking t-shirts,</div> <div> walk the yellow line</div> <div> between coming and going</div> <div> like a tight rope, arms out for balance,</div> <div> all the way to the corner and back.</div> <div> Broad Street still as a parking lot,</div> <div> wound tight as a fist.</div> <div> You pop the trunk, fish a beer</div> <div> from your cooler and pound it.</div> <div> You get back into your car.</div> <div> The radio's recapping the game:</div> <div> your team pulled one out</div> <div> it would have blown last year.</div> <div> You've blown the last year working</div> <div> nights while your lady works days.</div> <div> Night work means bad lighting</div> <div> and you've had enough close calls.</div> <div> You've had enough overtime.</div> <div> You've had enough.</div> <div> Something has to give.</div> <div> Somewhere in the distance a dog</div> <div> is barking, a husband is coming home.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Daniel Donaghy grew up in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. He earned a B.A. from Kutztown University, an M.A. from Hollins College, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Cornell Council for the Arts. His poems have appeared in various journals, including The Southern Review, Poet Lore, Alaska Quarterly Review, Texas Review, Commonweal, Image, New Letters, and West Branch. He lives in Spencerport, NY, with his wife and daughter.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Stadium Traffic</B><I> </I>is a 32 page  hand-sewn chapbook. </div> <div> $7.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  Stadium Traffic ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Stadium Traffic"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="04-10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </FONT></div> <div> To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. </div> <bR> <div> Send orders to:</div> <bR> <div> FootHills Publishing</div> <div> PO Box 68</div> <div> Kanona, NY 14856</div> <bR> <div> <B>Thank you for your support! </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>