Ted Kooser Quote

A happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand


Delights & Shadows: Poems (ed. Copper Canyon Press, 2004) - ISBN: 9781556592010


A happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could ...

A happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could ...

A happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could ...

A happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could ...