Ted Kooser, Nebraska poet and former U. S. Poet Laureate, features Marnie Walsh’s “Bessie Dreaming Bear.”
Kooser comments on the poem as he introduces it: “A poem need not go on at great length to accomplish the work of conveying something meaningful to its readers. In the following poem by the late Marnie Walsh, just a few words, written as if they'd been recorded in exactly the manner in which they'd been spoken, tell us not only about the missing woman in the red high heels, but a little something about the speaker as well.”
The first four lines:
we all went to town one day
went to a store
bought you new shoes
red high heels
To finishing reading the poem, please visit Kooser’s fine Web site at American Life in Poetry: Column 3.
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