Great Regulars: I've always loved shop talk,

with its wonderful language of tools and techniques. This poem by D. Nurkse of Brooklyn, New York, is a perfect example. I especially like the use of the verb, lap, in line seven, because that's exactly the sound a four-inch wall brush makes.

Bushwick: Latex Flat
2001

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 179

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