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American Life in Poetry

Ted Kooser U.S. poet laureate, 2004-06

I love short poems, and Wendy Videlock is very good at writing them. This is from her book “Slingshots and Love Plums.” She lives in Colorado.

A Relevance

One

teeny tiny

worm

making the earth

turn.

Poem copyright 2015 by Wendy Videlock, from her book of poems, ”Slingshots and Love Plums” (Able Muse Press, 2015), and is reprinted by permission of the author and publisher. American Life in Poetry is supported by the Poetry Foundation and the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.