Sally's Hair

Let me stay there for a while, while evening

Gathers in the sky and daylight lingers on the hills.

There''s something in the air, something I can''t quite see,

Hiding behind this stock of images, this language

Culled from all the poems I''ve ever loved.

John Koethe''s remarkable gift to readers is an elegiac poetry that explores the transitory nature of ordinary human experience. The beautiful poe...