Something different

[Michael]

OK - I am back from vacation and wanting to offer up something
different for these sultry days of August.
Here is the irrepressible poet Paul Muldoon going onto Steven
Colbert's program.
Please go to the following:
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2009/06/paul-muldoon-with-stephen-colbert.html
or
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/231220/june-18-2009/paul-muldoon

I think you will enjoy it.

Here is the poem they read together

TEA
I was rooting through tea-chest after tea-chest
as they drifted in along Key West

when I chanced on ‘Pythagoras in America’:
the book had fallen open at a book-mark

of tea; a tassel
of black watered silk from a Missal;

of a tea-bird’s black tail-feather.
All I have in the house is some left-over

squid cooked in its own ink
and this unfortunate cup of tea. Take it. Drink.

Paul Muldoon (b. 20 June 1951)