Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Great Regulars: Those of us who live in the country

equate the word "development" with displacement, and it has often been said that subdivisions are named for what they replace, like Woodland Glade. Here's a writer from my state, Nebraska, Stephen Behrendt, with a poem about what some call progress.

Developing the Land

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 296

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Flying at Night
by Ted Kooser

Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.

from Ted Kooser: The Writer's Almanac: Flying at Night by Ted Kooser

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