Oh Ted.

Ted Kooser with his amazing poem “Abandoned Farmhouse.”
What a way to show how you feel! It’s almost hard to describe because there’s so much. This poem displays much of the fight between the wife and the husband.
“He was a big man, says the size of his shoes/ on a pile of broken dishes by the house;”
“A woman lived with him…”
“…and they had a child,/says the sandbox made from a tractor tire.”
“Something went wrong, says the empty house”
“Something went wrong, they say.”
Okay.. so.. I picked out those lines because they basically summarize all that ekphratic [profanity word] in there. Kooser is very straightforward with the fact that a man and a woman had a fight and they left their problems to dwindle in time. Nothing is moved.

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