Ted Kooser’s most recent book is Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). He is a former US Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife live on sixty-two acres of rural Nebraska. Photo by Stancey Hancock
At the said-to-be bottomless pond
at the sand pit, the raft we discovered
was a heavy barn door, maybe ten feet
by twelve, halfway in, halfway out
of the water where others had left it,
probably...
For more, read Daniel Simon’s interview with Ted Kooser, “Starving for Order.”
The Constellation
I was on my way home from a party,ten-thirty, a dark winter night, no stars,a few snowflakes drifting...