Portrait of Heaven
Mark Alan Stamaty

“In my Heaven I am the first-string left fielder for the Eternal Brooklyn Dodgers. We play our home games at Ebbets-Field-in-the-Sky. Here, I’m slugging a home run. After the game I’ll fly to the house I grew up in. It’s in a field of flowers and female nudists. There I’ll meet Roy Rogers and Gene Autry and the three of us will ride the prairie until sunset, rounding up our fictitious desperadoes.”
         —Mark Alan Stamaty