Green-Striped Melons by Jane Hirshfield : American Life in Poetry #227 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureat

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Ted Kooser

Jane Hirshfield, a Californian and one of my favorite poets, writes beautiful image-centered poems of clarity and concision, which sometimes conclude with a sudden and surprising deepening. Here’s just one example.
Green-Striped Melons

They lie