[New-Poetry] Ted Kooser's pick: Robert Haight

[Anny Ballardini]

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American Life in Poetry: Column 193

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006

*Robert Haight*

How Is It That the Snow

How is it that the snow
amplifies the silence,
slathers the black bark on limbs,
heaps along the brush rows?

Some deer have stood on their hind legs
to pull the berries down.
Now they are ghosts along the path,
snow flecked with red wine stains.

This silence in the timbers.
A woodpecker on one of the trees
taps out its story,
stopping now and then in the lapse
of one white moment into another.


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Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2002 by Robert Haight from his
most recent book of poetry, "Emergences and Spinner Falls," New Issues
Poetry and Prose, 2002. Reprinted by permission of Robert Haight.
Introduction copyright (c) 2008 by The Poetry Foundation.  The
introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet
Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from
2004-2006.  We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

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