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American Life in Poetry: Column 221 6/16/09
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Sometimes, it's merely the sound of a child's voice in a nearby room that makes a parent feel immensely
lucky. To celebrate Father's Day, here's a joyful poem of fatherhood by Todd Boss, who lives in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
This Morning in a Morning Voice
to beat the froggiest
of morning voices,
my son gets out of bed
and takes a lumpish song
along--a little lyric
learned in kindergarten,
something about a
boat. He's found it in
the bog of his throat
before his feet have hit
the ground, follows
its wonky melody down
the hall and into the loo
as if it were the most
natural thing for a little
boy to do, and lets it
loose awhile in there
to a tinkling sound while
I lie still in bed, alive
like I've never been, in
love again with life,
afraid they'll find me
drowned here, drowned
in more than my fair
share of joy.
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 (c)2008 by Todd Boss, whose most recent book of poems is
"Yellowrocket," W. W. Norton & Co., 2008. Poem reprinted from "Poetry," December 2008, by
permission of Todd Boss and the publisher. Introduction copyright (c)2009 by The Poetry Foundation.
The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to
the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Sometimes, it's merely the sound of a child's voice in a nearby room that makes a parent feel immensely
lucky. To celebrate Father's Day, here's a joyful poem of fatherhood by Todd Boss, who lives in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
This Morning in a Morning Voice
to beat the froggiest
of morning voices,
my son gets out of bed
and takes a lumpish song
along--a little lyric
learned in kindergarten,
something about a
boat. He's found it in
the bog of his throat
before his feet have hit
the ground, follows
its wonky melody down
the hall and into the loo
as if it were the most
natural thing for a little
boy to do, and lets it
loose awhile in there
to a tinkling sound while
I lie still in bed, alive
like I've never been, in
love again with life,
afraid they'll find me
drowned here, drowned
in more than my fair
share of joy.
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 (c)2008 by Todd Boss, whose most recent book of poems is
"Yellowrocket," W. W. Norton & Co., 2008. Poem reprinted from "Poetry," December 2008, by
permission of Todd Boss and the publisher. Introduction copyright (c)2009 by The Poetry Foundation.
The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to
the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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