Kooser’s Column 150

Posted by Linda Sue Grimes Feb 8, 2008

About the Ochester poem, Kooser comments: “There's a world of great interest and significance right under our feet, but most of us don't think to look down. We spend most of our time peering off into the future, speculating on how we will deal with whatever is coming our way. Or dwelling on the past. Here Ed Ochester stops in the middle of life to look down.”

Here is the middle of the poem:

not much compared to what they find

in England, where every now and then

a coin of the Roman emperors, Severus

or Constantius, works its way up

To read the beginning and end, please visit American Life in Poetry Column 150.

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