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American Life in Poetry: Column 247 12/18/2009
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Family photographs, how much they do capture in all their elbow-to-elbow
awkwardness. In this poem, Ben Vogt of Nebraska describes a color snapshot of a
Christmas dinner, the family, impatient to tuck in, arrayed along the laden table. I
especially like the description of the turkey.
Grandpa Vogt’s—1959
The food is on the table. Turkey tanned
to a cowboy boot luster, potatoes mashed
and mounded in a bowl whose lip is lined
with blue flowers linked by grey vines faded
from washing. Everyone’s heads have turned
to elongate the table’s view—a last supper twisted
toward a horizon where the Christmas tree, crowned
by a window, sets into itself half inclined.
Each belly cries. Each pair of eyes admonished
by Aunt Photographer. Look up. You’re wined
and dined for the older folks who’ve pined
to see your faces, your lives, lightly framed
in this moment’s flash. Parents are moved,
press their children’s heads up from the table,
hide their hunger by rubbing lightly wrinkled
hands atop their laps. They’ll hold the image
as long as need be, seconds away from grace.
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 ©2008
by Benjamin Vogt, whose most recent book of poems is Indelible Marks, Pudding
House Press, 2004. Reprinted by permission of Benjamin Vogt. Introduction copyright
© 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
Family photographs, how much they do capture in all their elbow-to-elbow
awkwardness. In this poem, Ben Vogt of Nebraska describes a color snapshot of a
Christmas dinner, the family, impatient to tuck in, arrayed along the laden table. I
especially like the description of the turkey.
Grandpa Vogt’s—1959
The food is on the table. Turkey tanned
to a cowboy boot luster, potatoes mashed
and mounded in a bowl whose lip is lined
with blue flowers linked by grey vines faded
from washing. Everyone’s heads have turned
to elongate the table’s view—a last supper twisted
toward a horizon where the Christmas tree, crowned
by a window, sets into itself half inclined.
Each belly cries. Each pair of eyes admonished
by Aunt Photographer. Look up. You’re wined
and dined for the older folks who’ve pined
to see your faces, your lives, lightly framed
in this moment’s flash. Parents are moved,
press their children’s heads up from the table,
hide their hunger by rubbing lightly wrinkled
hands atop their laps. They’ll hold the image
as long as need be, seconds away from grace.
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 ©2008
by Benjamin Vogt, whose most recent book of poems is Indelible Marks, Pudding
House Press, 2004. Reprinted by permission of Benjamin Vogt. Introduction copyright
© 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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