American Life in Poetry: Column 536

American Life in Poetry: Column 536
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

I love short poems, and Wendy Videlock is very good at writing them. This is from her book Slingshots and Love Plums, from Able Muse Press. She lives in Colorado.

A Relevance
One
teeny tiny
worm
making the earth
turn.

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