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    Tuesday, November 22, 2005

    "Tintype on the Pond, 1925"

    American Life in Poetry: Column 035
    By TED KOOSER
    U.S. poet laureate

    Massachusetts poet J. Lorraine Brown has used an unusual image in "Tintype on the Pond, 1925." This poem, like many others, offers us a unique experience, presented as a gift, for us to respond to as we will. We need not ferret out a hidden message. How many of us will recall this little scene the next time we see ice skates or a Sunday-dinner roast?

    Tintype on the Pond, 1925
    Believe it or not,
    the old woman said,
    and I tried to picture it:
    a girl,
    the polished white ribs of a roast
    tied to her boots with twine,
    the twine coated with candle wax
    so she could glide uninterrupted
    across the ice --
    my mother,
    skating on bones.
    Reprinted from "Eclipse" by permission of the author. Poem copyright (c) 2004 by J. Lorraine Brown.

    This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

    posted by Nichole @ 3:56 PM  

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