Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser

Author:Ted Kooser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

A Winter Morning

A farmhouse window far back from the highway

speaks to the darkness in a small, sure voice.

Against this stillness, only a kettle’s whisper,

and against the starry cold, one small blue ring of flame.

III. BANK FISHING FOR BLUEGILLS

Bank Fishing for Bluegills

A breeze nudges the empty aluminum boat

as it drifts at the end of its rope,

its lightness wallowing within it like a fat man

who has fished all day and fallen asleep

and is dreaming of when he was a little boy

and weighed no more than a plastic bucket.

Years of floating alone, fishing far

from the tourist cabins shining like rivets

along the water’s edge, have bleached the blue

from his overalls and denim shirt.

His face has the flat gray sheen of a man

with a failing heart, but he is all lightness now,

and tethered only gently to this world.

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