The Poet Was In
Apr. 30th, 2017 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenAt the farmers' market last Sunday, I saw a table with a sign, "The Poet Is In," and so came to meet the Poet Laureate of Arlington, Katherine E. Young, and no, I hadn't realized that Arlington had a Poet Laureate. We got to talking; she's a translator from the Russian as well as a poet, and I bought a copy of her book, Day of the Border Guards.
She wrote a poem for me, "In the Patent Office, for Nicholas Rosen," which runs:
By day, the patient crafting of letters
responding to applications
for this or that process
to perfect and sell
the uneasy American dream.
By night,
the gas-lit shimmer of jeweled Victorian prose
as Henry George constellates
the moral universe.
She wrote a poem for me, "In the Patent Office, for Nicholas Rosen," which runs:
By day, the patient crafting of letters
responding to applications
for this or that process
to perfect and sell
the uneasy American dream.
By night,
the gas-lit shimmer of jeweled Victorian prose
as Henry George constellates
the moral universe.
