Great Regulars: At the Cancer Clinic

by Ted Kooser

She is being helped toward the open door

from Ted Kooser via Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: At the Cancer Clinic by Ted Kooser

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The title of this beautiful poem by Edward Hirsch contradicts the poem, which is indeed a prayer. Hirsch lives in New York and is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, one of our country's most distinguished cultural endowments.

I Was Never Able To Pray

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 357

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