[New-Poetry] Fw: American Life in Poetry: Column 142

[Anny Ballardini]

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> American Life in Poetry: Column 142
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> BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
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Linda Gregg
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> Elegance
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> All that is uncared for.
> Left alone in the stillness
> in that pure silence married
> to the stillness of nature.
> A door off its hinges,
> shade and shadows in an empty room.
> Leaks for light. Raw where
> the tin roof rusted through.
> The rustle of weeds in their
> different kinds of air in the mornings,
> year after year.
> A pecan tree, and the house
> made out of mud bricks. Accurate
> and unexpected beauty, rattling
> and singing. If not to the sun,
> then to nothing and to no one.
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