Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Great Regulars: Hearts and flowers, that's how some people

dismiss poetry, suggesting that's all there is to it, just a bunch of sappy poets weeping over love and beauty. Well, poetry is lots more than that. At times it's a means of honoring the simple things about us. To illustrate the care with which one poet observes a flower, here's Frank Steele, of Kentucky, paying such close attention to a sunflower that he almost gets inside it.

Sunflower

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 176

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