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    Thursday, June 29, 2006

    "The Copper Beech"

    American Life in Poetry: Column 066

    By Ted Kooser,
    U.S. poet laureate, 2004-2006

    Some of the most telling poetry being written in our country today has to do with the smallest and briefest of pleasures. Here Marie Howe of New York captures a magical moment: sitting in the shelter of a leafy tree with the rain falling all around.

    The Copper Beech

    Immense, entirely itself,
    it wore that yard like a dress,

    with limbs low enough for me to enter it
    and climb the crooked ladder to where

    I could lean against the trunk and practice being alone.
    One day, I heard the sound before I saw it, rain fell
    darkening the sidewalk.

    Sitting close to the center, not very high in the branches,
    I heard it hitting the high leaves, and I was happy,

    watching it happen without it happening to me.


    Reprinted from "What the Living Do," W. W. Norton & Co., 1997. Copyright (c) 1997 by Marie Howe. This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

    posted by Nichole @ 11:23 PM  

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