Vintage Colorado Poetry Poem of the Week 2 Laureates / 2 Poems September 27, 2004

Round by Mary Crow, Colorado Poet Laureate

Ted Kooser is the Poet Laureate of the United States.

Visiting Mountains The plains ignore us, but these mountains listen, an audience of thousands holding its breath in each rock.  Climbing, we pick our way over the skulls of small talk. On the prairies below us, the grass leans this way and that in discussion; words fly away like corn shucks over the fields. Here, lost in a mountain's attention, there's nothing to say.                   --Ted Kooser Reprinted from Sure Signs:  New and Selected Poems by Ted Kooser.  University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1980.  Copyright (c) 1980, Ted Kooser.  Used with the author's permission.

Pikes Peak. Photo credit: Dick Miller.

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