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