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US Poet Laureate Donald Hall (1928-2018) published essays and anthologies of both poetry and prose including "String too Short to be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm", and "Ox-Cart Man", a children's book which won the Caldecott Medal. [Listener: Kendel Currier; date recorded: 2005]

TRANSCRIPT: 'Summer Kitchen'. This is a poem I wrote after the death of my wife, Jane Kenyon... not immediately after, some years later.

'Summer Kitchen'
In June’s high light, she stood at the sink
With a glass of wine,
And listened for the bobolink,
And crushed garlic, in late sunshine.

I watched her cooking from my chair.
She pressed her lips
together, reached for kitchenware,
And tasted sauce from her fingertips.

"It’s ready now. Come on," she said,
"You light the candle."
We ate, and talked, and went to bed,
And slept. It was a miracle.