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    Thursday, April 06, 2006

    "Tangerine"

    American Life in Poetry: Column 054

    By Ted Kooser
    U.S. Poet Laureate

    Poet Ruth L. Schwartz writes of the glimpse of possibility, of something sweeter than we already have that comes to us, grows in us. The unrealizable part of it causes bitterness; the other opens outward, the cycle complete. This is both a poem about a tangerine and about more than that.
    This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
    Tangerine
    It was a flower once, it was one of a billion flowers
    whose perfume broke through closed car windows,
    forced a blessing on their drivers.
    Then what stayed behind grew swollen, as we do;
    grew juice instead of tears, and small hard sour seeds,
    each one bitter, as we are, and filled with possibility.
    Now a hole opens up in its skin, where it was torn from the
    branch; ripeness can't stop itself, breathes out;
    we can't stop it either. We breathe in.

    From "Dear Good Naked Morning," (c) 2005 by Ruth L. Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of the author and Autumn House Press. First printed in "Crab Orchard Review," Vol. 8, No. 2.

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