[New-Poetry] Today's news

[TheOldMole]

This is a very nice poem.
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  From: David Graham 
  To: NewPoetry & Views 
  Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:42 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] Today's news


  I've been reading with much pleasure David Tucker's first collection, *Late for Work*, selected & introduced by Philip Levine for the Breadloaf Bakeless Prize.  Tucker is a new name to me, but he's not a new writer.  He's a fifty-something journalist and editor (New Jersey's Star-Ledger), and often writes about the newsroom experience.  Not a surprise that Levine would take to him, since he writes so well about the working world.






  Today’s News

  A slow news day, but I did like the obit about the butcher 
  who kept the same store for 50 years. People remembered 
  when his street was sweetly roaring, aproned 
  with flower stalls and fish stands.
  The stock market wandered, spooked by presidential winks, 
  by micro-winds and the shadows of earnings. News was stationed 
  around the horizon, ready as summer clouds to thunder--
  but it moved off and we covered the committee meeting 
  at the back of the state house, sat around on our desks
  then went home early. The birds were still singing,
  the sun just going down. Working these long hours
  you forget how beautiful the early evening can be, 
  the big houses like ships turning into the night,
  their rooms piled high with silence.

  —by David Tucker.  Late for Work.  Houghton Mifflin, 2006.





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