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Intro by Ted Kooser
05.24.2015
Many of the poems that have sur­vived the longest are very short. Some of them are a cou­ple of thou­sand years old. They have some­how man­aged to per­fect­ly catch life in just a few words and we can still feel those long-ago lives with­in them. Glen­na Luschei, who lives in Cal­i­for­nia, tells us a great deal about com­fort in this exem­plary poem. Her lat­est book of poet­ry is Leav­ing It All Behind, (Pre­sa Press, 2011).
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By Glenna Luschei
Dog at my pillow.
Dog at my feet.
My own toothbrush.
 

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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 ©2014 by Glenna Luschei, “Home.” Poem reprinted by permission of Glenna Luschei. Introduction copyright © 2024 by The Poetry Foundation.

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