Red Stilts by Ted Kooser

Author:Ted Kooser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Sounds of a Summer Night

Up to his smile in the pond,

the leopard frog plays his kazoo.

A June bug plunks the dobro

of a window screen.

On a leaf, the tree frog strokes

her washboard with a twig.

A bobwhite toots two notes

on a pennywhistle.

Bellied in mud, a bullfrog

blows down the neck of a jug.

Owl on the ocarina,

raccoon on the trashcan,

but not a sound from the snake

who slips through the night

in his tight black leather suit,

guitar picks sewn all over it.

Noon Whistle

The siren on the village water tower

is each noon wound onto the spool of itself,

then released, and the sharp end

springs out and slaps at the fading barns

and pig sheds all over the township,

blisters the sides of big square farmhouses,

then reaches out over the partly turned fields

to wake the old farmers, wheeled up

to their nursing home windows or dead,

nagging at them to leave their teams

and four-bottom plows, letting the horses

cool off, hanging their heads, reins

drooling down, and to limp in over

the fresh black clods toward chicken,

new potatoes, and green beans for lunch

in the silence that rushes back in.

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