American Life in Poetry
Many of the poems that have survived the longest are very short. Some of them are a couple of thousand years old. They have somehow managed to perfectly catch life in just a few words and we can still feel those long-ago lives within them. Glenna Luschei, who lives in California, tells us a great deal about comfort in this exemplary poem. Her latest book of poetry is “Leaving It All Behind” (Presa Press, 2011).
Home
Dog at my pillow.
Dog at my feet.
My own toothbrush.
Copyright 2014 by Glenna Luschei and reprinted by permission of Glenna Luschei. American Life in Poetry is supported by the Poetry Foundation and English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.