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Column 821

starry night

Intro by Ted Kooser
12.13.2020

Lan­guage is a mag­ic bowl that can hold all we imag­ine. Here in five words, care­ful­ly cho­sen by Jen­nifer Ham­brick of Ohio, are the front and back of the galaxy, acorns under­foot and stars high above, and, mag­i­cal­ly, every­thing else in between. Her most recent book is Unscathed from Night­Bal­let Press.

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starry night

By Jennifer Hambrick
starry night
acorns popping
underfoot
 

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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 ©2020 by Jennifer Hambrick "starry night," from Modern Haiku (2020). Poem reprinted by permission of Jennifer Hambrick and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2024 by The Poetry Foundation.

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