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Column 536

A Relevance

Intro by Ted Kooser
06.28.2015

I love short poems, and Wendy Vide­lock is very good at writ­ing them. This is from her book Sling­shots and Love Plums, from Able Muse Press. She lives in Colorado.

A Relevance

One
teeny tiny
worm

making the earth
turn.

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We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Wendy Videlock, “A Relevance,” from her book of poems, Slingshots and Love Plums, (Able Muse Press, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Wendy Videlock and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2024 by The Poetry Foundation.