Choose any woman—
movie star, whatever. 
I have a pretty good idea
what knowing her
(Biblically) would feel like.
But, man! Standing at the plate
under the lights,
watching the ball I’d hit
arc through the night
on its way over the wall—
that would be (Greek)
godlike beyond imagination.

Robert Estes, who lives in Somerville, MA, got his Physics PhD at UC Berkeley, and had some interesting experiences using physics, notably on two US-Italian Space Shuttle missions. His poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Cola Literary Review, The Moth, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Anacapa Review, Constellations, Sierra Nevada Review, and elsewhere.