Lorine Niedecker

It's been a while since I looked up the poet Lorine Niedecker. Happy to see she has a website now, made and maintained by The Friends of Lorine Niedcecker, Inc.

Here's a short one, a love poem:

I knew a clean man
but he was not for me.
Now I sew green aprons
over covered seats. He

wades the muddy water fishing,
falls in, dries his last pay-check
in the sun, smooths it out
in Leaves of Grass. He's
the one for me.

For those looking to expand their poetry collections, I would recommend Jenny Penberthy's Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, published by the U of California Press, in 2002. Lots of short poems like the one above, in addition to some excellent contextual material.