Walking Vanya the senior Labrador yesterday up Capitol Hill,
our eye was caught by a box at someone’s front gate.
FREE POEM
Changed each month by the householder.
I expected something very homemade,
but it was a Ted Kooser poem from his book of the same name,
Copper Canyon Press 2014
‘Splitting an Order’
I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half,
maybe an ordinary cold roast beef on whole wheat bread,
no pickles or onion, keeping his shaky hands steady
by placing his forearms firm on the edge of the table
and using both hands, the left to hold the sandwich in place,
and the right to cut it surely, corner to corner,
observing his progress through glasses that moments before
he wiped with his napkin, and then to see him lift half
onto the extra plate that he had asked the server to bring,
and then to wait, offering the plate to his wife
while she slowly unrolls her napkin and places her spoon,
her knife and her fork in their proper places,
then smoothes the starched white napkin over her knees
and meets his eyes and holds out both old hands to him.
On Mar 20, 2015, at 16:44, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ha ha ha - I get a 'free' coffee every morning - if I make it myself. A
> poem is much more difficult :-)
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> Andrew
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> On 21 March 2015 at 05:08, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Strewth I have missed this !!!!I expect someone did well in Sutton
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
>> Sent: 20 March 2015 18:00
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: world poetry day
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>> Too bad I don't drink coffee, but then Canada seems not to be listed there.
>>
>> Doug
>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/mar/20/poetry-coffee-pay-wit
>> h-a-poem-cafes-world-poetry-day
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
>> (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> There is no life that does not rise
>> melodic from scales of the marvelous.
>>
>> To which our grief refers.
>>
>> Robert Duncan.
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> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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