Brass Jingle
Posted November 3, 2010
By admin
Ted Kooser's poem "applesauce"?
I liked how the starry blue lid of that saucepan lifted and puffed, then settled back on thin hotpad of steam, and the way her kitchen filled with the warm, wet breath of apples, as if all the apples were talking at once, as if they's come cold and sour from chores in the orchard, and were trying to shoulder in close to the fire. She was to busy to put in her two cents' worth talking to apples. Squeezing her dentures with wrinkly lips, she had to jingle and stack the bright brass coins of the lids and thoughtfully count out the red rubber rings, then hold each jar, to see if it was clean, to a window that looked out through her backyard in to Iowa. And with every third or fourth jar she wiped steam from her glasses, using the hem of her apron, printed with tiny red sailboats that dipped along with leaf-green banners snapping, under puffs of pale applesauce clouds scented with cinammon and cloves, the only boats under sail for at least two thousand miles.
I couldn't think of a better way to respond to this poem than with another Ted Kooser, entitled "Selecting a Reader:"
First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
"For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned." And she will.
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