Pulitzer Prize-winner Louise Gluck named poet laureate
The Gift
Lord, You may not recognize me
speaking for someone else.
I have a son. He is
so little, so ignorant.
He likes to stand at the screen door calling
oggie, oggie, entering
language, and sometimes
a dog will stop and come up
the walk, perhaps
accidentally. May he believe this is not an accident?
At the screen
welcoming each beast in
love’s name, Your emissary.
--Louise Gluck
