[New-Poetry] Kooser and Lenfestey

[Anny Ballardini]

American Life in Poetry: Column 186

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

James Lenfestey:

Daughter

A daughter is not a passing cloud, but permanent,
holding earth and sky together with her shadow.
She sleeps upstairs like mystery in a story,
blowing leaves down the stairs, then cold air, then warm.
We who at sixty should know everything, know nothing.
We become dull and disoriented by uncertain weather.
We kneel, palms together, before this blossoming altar.


American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation
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supported by the Department of English at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2007 by James P. Lenfestey from
his most recent book of poetry, "A Cartload of Scrolls," Holy Cow!
Press, 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author. 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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