POEM BY STEPHEN CUSHMAN

I first heard Stephen Cushman's wonderful poem, "Beside the Point," when it was featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Key phrases remained with me; it is a poem I particularly cherish. The author is a professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Here is how this perfect little poem begins:

     "The sky has never won a prize.

     The clouds have no careers.

     The rainbow doesn't say my work,

     thank goodness."

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