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American Life in Poetry: Column 204 new 2/16/09
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Memories form around details the way a pearl forms around a grain of sand, and in this
commemoration of an anniversary, Cecilia Woloch reaches back to grasp a few details that promise
to bring a cherished memory forward, and succeeds in doing so. The poet lives and teaches in
southern California.
Anniversary
Didn't I stand there once,
white-knuckled, gripping the just-lit taper,
swearing I'd never go back?
And hadn't you kissed the rain from my mouth?
And weren't we gentle and awed and afraid,
knowing we'd stepped from the room of desire
into the further room of love?
And wasn't it sacred, the sweetness
we licked from each other's hands?
And were we not lovely, then, were we not
as lovely as thunder, and damp grass, and flame?
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org),
publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2008 by Cecilia Woloch. Reprinted from "Narcissus," by
Cecilia Woloch, Tupelo Press, Dorset, VT, 2008, by permission of Cecilia Woloch. Introduction
copyright (c) 2009 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as
United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We
do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Memories form around details the way a pearl forms around a grain of sand, and in this
commemoration of an anniversary, Cecilia Woloch reaches back to grasp a few details that promise
to bring a cherished memory forward, and succeeds in doing so. The poet lives and teaches in
southern California.
Anniversary
Didn't I stand there once,
white-knuckled, gripping the just-lit taper,
swearing I'd never go back?
And hadn't you kissed the rain from my mouth?
And weren't we gentle and awed and afraid,
knowing we'd stepped from the room of desire
into the further room of love?
And wasn't it sacred, the sweetness
we licked from each other's hands?
And were we not lovely, then, were we not
as lovely as thunder, and damp grass, and flame?
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org),
publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2008 by Cecilia Woloch. Reprinted from "Narcissus," by
Cecilia Woloch, Tupelo Press, Dorset, VT, 2008, by permission of Cecilia Woloch. Introduction
copyright (c) 2009 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as
United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We
do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
*****************************
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