Hammer Head

'A' is for Astros.
Nervous.
Threw a ball into the foul net.
Then strikes up and down.
Mama prayed I'd pitch better.

Ate orange crackers
With peanut butter
Six foot seas.
A 7-Up.
Threw up.

Layed in a cabin on a ship.
Woman smiled beside a pan.
Said it'd be better on the top deck.
Said to stare at the horizon.

Papaw caught a hammer head.

Steel spring chair
Axe handle to bat a ball
To a dog named Fella

Chain linked fence
Frost filled icebox
A-Frame pulling a motor
Spinning wheels
Old pine and whiskey

Cord of wood
For the fireplace
Four hundred dollars
In the glove compartment

Pipe
Saint Edwards
Big Red
In a deer blind early in the morning
Eye on a cold scope
Thin crossline
Corn in the feeder

Old black man
On his porch
Magic man
In his rocking chair
Laughing

Sick

On land
Hammer Head
On land

What happened?