A Monday Poem by Lowell Jaeger: "let us now praise"
This week's Monday Poem from The Write Question is from Lowell Jaeger's latest collection, WE.
I love these lines:
"...she could boil such luxuries loose from bones. And fill
our cups with her glad battered face,
so that when we left her we strode
back into our workday brimming
with the lasting taste of compassion."
Read the entire poem on The Write Question blog:
http://thewritequestion.blogspot.com/2011/01/monday-poems-let-us-no...
It's a good day to read, and/or write, a poem. Happy Monday!
Chérie Newman
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