Billy Collins's new collection, Horoscopes for the Dead, will be published early next year. He served as the U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003.
Oh, large, brown, thickly feathered creature with a distinctive white head, you, perched on the top branch of a tree near the lake shore, as soon as I guide this boat back to the dock and walk up the grassy path to the house, before I unzip my windbreaker and lift the binoculars from around my neck, before I wash the gasoline from my hands, before I tell anyone I’m back, and before I hang the ignition key on its nail, or pour myself a drink—…… More »
Hear former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins read his poem 'Searching', originally published in October 2008… More »
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