In How to learn to love Poetry, Natasha Tretheway says that children look at broccoli as trees. Wow.
After Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane poem was tweeted. Its not until you reach this poem, that you get to a solid poem. But wait what was that about counting leaves in Foolishness? No its not crazy but beautiful. Poet Mary Oliver is busy praising nature.
Percy seems familiar.
In 'The Mockingbird', she calls him 'the thief of other sounds'.
In 'The way of the world, a wondrous fish 'In its silver scales / it seemed dressed for a wedding'.
On Traveling to beautiful places, the poet says we are all on this only ship. In Stiff, Mary Roach likens a cadaver to being on a cruise lying on the back and brain blank.
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