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American Life in Poetry: Column 264
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Wendy Videlock lives in western Colorado, where a person can stop to study what an owl has left behind without being run over by a taxi. The Owl Beneath her nest,
a shrew's head,
a finch's beak
and the bones
of a quail attest
the owl devours
the hour,
and disregards
the rest.
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Introduction copyright © 2012 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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