The Shirt
The shirt touches his neck
and smoothes over his back.
It slides down his sides.
It even goes down below his belt—
down into his pants.
Lucky shirt.
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Hello Friends —
Today’s poem is by Jane Kenyon from her 1978 collection From Room to Room. For a different take, also see “Shirt” by Robert Pinsky.
April is National Poetry Month, and I am celebrating by emailing out my own eclectic selection of one poem per day for the duration of the month. If you wish to be unsubscribed from this Poem-a-Day email list at any time, please reply to this email with a friendly unsubscribe request (preferably in heroic couplet form). You may also request to add a consenting friend to the list, or even nominate a poem.
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Enjoy.
Ellen
“The Shirt” by Jane Kenyon was featured again for Poem-a-Day April 7, 2009.