Robert Hedin is the author, translator, and editor of numerous books of poetry and prose, including The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations; The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (cotranslated with Robert Bly); and Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism. His work has been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and in Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated column, “American Life in Poetry.” Hedin is the director of the Anderson Center, an artist retreat in Minnesota.

Five Poems

by Robert Hedin

Myron

The first time it happened he was up on his roof shingling. The second time he was stringing some Christmas lights along the roofline. The neighbors saw a shadow pass the kitchen window, then heard a thump like a sack of potatoes hitting hard. Pretty soon it happened so many times people quit counting.

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