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    Friday, March 24, 2006

    "Radiator"

    American Life in Poetry: Column 052
    By Ted Kooser
    U.S. poet laureate

    What a marvelous gift is the imagination, and each of us gets one at birth, free of charge and ready to start up, get on, and ride away. Can there be anything quite so homely and ordinary as a steam radiator? And yet, here, Connie Wanek, of Duluth, Minnesota, nudges one into play.
    This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
    Radiator
    Mittens are drying on the radiator,
    boots nearby, one on its side.
    Like some monstrous segmented insect
    the radiator elongates under the window.

    Or it is a beast with many shoulders
    domesticated in the Ice Age.
    How many years it takes
    to move from room to room!

    Some cage their radiators
    but this is unnecessary
    as they have little desire to escape.

    Like turtles they are quite self-contained.
    If they seem sad, it is only the same sadness
    we all feel, unlovely, growing slowly cold.

    Reprinted from "Bonfire," New Rivers Press, 1997, by permission of the author. Copyright (c) 1997 by Connie Wanek. Her most recent book is "Hartley Field," from Holy Cow! Press.

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