Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Great Regulars: This marvelous poem

by the California poet Marsha Truman Cooper perfectly captures the world of ironing, complete with its intimacy. At the end, doing a job to perfection, pressing the perfect edge, establishes a reassuring order to an otherwise mundane and slightly tawdry world.

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 069 (pdf)

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