[New-Poetry] Ted Kooser

[Anny Ballardini]

Pleasantly surprised. I woke up this morning with a strange dream in
my eyes. My father brought me to a place where there was only
splintered rock, a Cubist gray on gray layering of geometrical forms,
and on top of the hill thus made, a cabin. And now I receive this
poem.

American Life in Poetry: Column 191

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

*Robert Wrigley*

*Finding a Bible in an Abandoned Cabin
*
Under dust plush as a moth's wing,
the book's leather cover still darkly shown,
and everywhere else but this spot was sodden
beneath the roof's unraveling shingles.
There was that back-of-the-neck lick of chill
and then, from my index finger, the book

opened like a blasted bird. In its box
of familiar and miraculous inks,
a construction of filaments and dust,
thoroughfares of worms, and a silage
of silverfish husks: in the autumn light,
eight hundred pages of perfect wordless lace.


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supported by the Department of English at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2007 by Robert Wrigley, whose
most recent book of poetry is "Earthly Meditations: New and Selected
Poems," Penguin, 2006. Poem reprinted from "The Hudson Review," Vol.
LIX, no. 4, Winter, 2007, by permission of Robert Wrigley.
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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Anny Ballardini
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