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New Poet Laureate

Posted on June 28, 2006

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Our new national Poet Laureate has been announced, Donald Hall
I’m disappointed that it’s another white man (updating the stats of my cartoon from April, we now have had 43 Poet Laureates of the United States – 36 of them have been white men) I still support the concept. Here is one of Hall’s best known poems:

Pale gold of the walls, gold

of the centers of daisies, yellow roses

pressing from a clear bowl. All day

we lay on the bed, my hand

stroking the deep

gold of your thighs and your back.

We slept and woke

entering the golden room together,

lay down in it breathing

quickly, then

slowly again,

caressing and dozing, your hand sleepily

touching my hair now.



We made in those days

tiny identical rooms inside our bodies

which the men who uncover our graves

will find in a thousand years,

shining and whole.

From Old and New Poems by Donald Hall, published by Ticknor & Fields.
Copyright © 1990 by Donald Hall.

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