April 4, 2010
 
Continuing an April tradition, Huntington News Network is celebrating April -- National Poetry Month -- with a poem a day from Knopf
 

 
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For Easter day, the simple grace of a Marie Ponsot poem.
 
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Transport
 
The rose, for all its behavior,
is smaller than the lifelove it stands for,
only briefly brightening,
and even its odor
only a metaphor.
Or so we suppose
just as we suppose the savior
we employ or see next door
is only some hired man
gardening.

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Excerpt from EASY. Copyright © 2009 by Marie Ponsot. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.