Kooser’s Column 157
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Posted by Linda Sue Grimes Mar 27, 2008 |
About the poem, Kooser observes, “From your school days you may remember A. E. Housman's poem that begins, ‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.’ Here's a look at a blossoming cherry, done 120 years later, on site among the famous cherry trees of Washington, by D.C. poet Judith Harris.”
The following is a sample to whet your appetite. To read the entire poem, please see American Life in Poetry: Column 157.
In Your Absence
Not yet summer,
but unseasonable heat
pries open the cherry tree.
It stands there stupefied,
in its sham, pink frills,
dense with early blooming.
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