Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Great Regulars: Family photographs, how much they do capture

in all their elbow-to-elbow awkwardness. In this poem, Ben Vogt of Nebraska describes a color snapshot of a Christmas dinner, the family, impatient to tuck in, arrayed along the laden table. I especially like the description of the turkey.

Grandpa Vogt's--1959

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 247

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