April 13, 2008: Today’s News, David Tucker
Today’s News
David Tucker
A slow news day, but I did like the obit about the butcher
who kept the same store for fifty years. People remembered
when his street was sweetly roaring, aproned
with flower stalls and fish stands.
The stock market wandered, spooked by presidential winks,
by micro-winds and the shadows of earnings. News was stationed
around the horizon, ready as summer clouds to thunderó
but it moved off and we covered the committee meeting
at the back of the statehouse, sat around on our desks,
then went home early. The birds were still singing,
the sun just going down. Working these long hours,
you forget how beautiful the early evening can be,
the big houses like ships turning into the night,
their rooms piled high with silence.
[David Tucker is a journalist whose team won a Pulitzer in 2005; I love poets who have day jobs. And the last five lines of this are so lovely.]
A year ago today: All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann, Leonard Cohen
Two years ago: Gamin, Frank O’Hara
Three years ago: [this is what you love: more people. you remember],
D.A. Powell
