Poets/Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser

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She had turned her face up into …

Ted Kooser

They’re on their way to Goodwill …

Ted Kooser

Dawn comes later and later now, …

Ted Kooser

It’s a kitchen. Its curtains fill …

Ted Kooser

He was a big man, says the size of his shoes …

Ted Kooser

I have seen the Brown Recluse Spider …

Ted Kooser

Cards in each mailbox, …

Ted Kooser

Here, on fine long legs springy as steel, …

Ted Kooser

The next morning I felt that our house …

Ted Kooser

It seemed those rose-pink dishes …

Ted Kooser

In musty light, in the thin brown air …

Ted Kooser

The first warm day, …

Ted Kooser

Look for me under the hood …

Ted Kooser

I had driven into one side of a city, …

Ted Kooser

The wall of identical boxes into which …

Ted Kooser

Seventy years ago I made a pair of stilts …

Ted Kooser

The gravel road rides with a slow gallop …

Ted Kooser

They have set aside their black tin boxes, …

Ted Kooser

Beside the highway, the Giant Slide …

Ted Kooser

On a parking lot staircase …

Ted Kooser

Long ago we quit lifting our heels …

Ted Kooser

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