It’s as if he plays
harmonica, the raccoon
with an ear of maize.
(From his poem “News Headlines from the Homer Noble Farm” published
Author: Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He is also the president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.
He has, you will find,
two modes only, the chipmunk:
fast-forward; rewind.
[From his poem “News Headlines from the Homer Noble Farm”