Billy Collins -- A Truly "Astonishing" Poet
will no doubt rise through the slats of these pines
and paint its usual light on the east end of the house,
on the white garden gate and on my useless car,
unless, of course, it happens to be raining,
in which case these windows will be maps of water,
the roof will be the weather's melancholic drum
and low gray clouds will sweep over this neighborhood.
In The Apple That Astonished Paris, Billy Collins covers the standard poetic targets of love, death, and art. In between, he helps us see the universality of experience, peppering it with laughter at ourselves -- and our humanness.
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