At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations
By Robert Hedin
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About this ebook
• Featured in Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated American Life in Poetry column
• Anthologized in Good Poems, edited by Garrison Keillor
• Anthologized in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins
• Founder and director of the Anderson Center
• Kay Sexton Award winner from the Minnesota Book Awards
• Former Poet Laureate!... (of Red Wing, Minnesota)
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At the Great Door of Morning - Robert Hedin
Selected Poems, Part 1
Moving Out with the Finches
for Sherod Santos
This morning I’m going to drag my desk
Out into the backyard and set it down
By the birdbath, near the flower bed
Overgrown with weeds. And the black
Leather armchair where I like to read
I’ll lug out under the two young maples,
Along with the Persian rug, the tall
Goosenecked lamp, the books, the CDs,
Even the huge unruly fern in the corner.
I’m going to haul it all outside, out
Into the open air where it’s quiet,
Where I won’t be bothered,
Out by the lilacs, the trellis of roses,
Near the blossoming fruit trees
Where they like to gather, the finches,
Those little birds, the color of pollen.
My Mother’s Hats
She kept them high on the top shelf,
In boxes big as drums—
Bright, crescent-shaped boats
With little fishnets dangling down—
And wore them with her best dress
To teas, coffee parties, department stores.
What a lovely catch, my father used to say,
Watching her sail off into the afternoon waters.
Raising the Titanic
I spent the winter my father died down in the basement,
under the calm surface of the floorboards, hundreds
of little plastic parts spread out like debris
on the table. And for months while the snow fell
and my father sat in the big chair by the Philco dying,
I worked my way up deck by deck, story by