[New-Poetry] Anne Pierson Wiese chosen by Ted Kooser

[Anny Ballardini]

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American Life in Poetry: Column 199

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

Anne Pierson Wiese.


Inscrutable Twist

The twist of the stream was inscrutable.
It was a seemingly run-of-the-mill
stream that flowed for several miles by the side
of Route 302 in northern Vermont--
and presumably does still--but I've not
been back there for what seems like a long time.

I have it in my mind's eye, the way
one crested a rise and rounded a corner
on the narrow blacktop, going west, and saw
off to the left in the flat green meadow
the stream turning briefly back on itself
to form a perfect loop--a useless light-filled
water noose or fragment of moon's cursive,
a sign or message of some kind--but left behind.

(c) Anne Pierson Wiese


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Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2007 by Anne Pierson Wiese, whose
most recent book of poetry is "Floating City," Louisiana State
University Press, 2007. Poem reprinted from "Ploughshares," Vol. 33,
no. 4, Winter 2007-08 by permission of Anne Pierson Wiese.
Introduction copyright (c) 200p 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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