To Be In The Same World
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Peter Kane Dufault (1923 – 2013) grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., and studied at Harvard. He graduated in 1947 and the first of his books of verse was published in 1954. He was variously employed as tree-surgeon, journalist, teacher, house-painter, pollster and, in 1968, he was a candidate for US Congress, running on the Liberal Party’s anti-Vietnam war platform; he was known locally as a fiddler, banjo-player and dance-caller. Poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker and London Magazine, and anthologies, including the 1996 Norton Anthology. Peter was well known for his live performances and was twice Visiting Poet at the Cheltenham Festival. A profile of Peter by Brad Leithauser can be read on the The New Yorker here.
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Peter Kane Dufault (1923 – 2013) grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., and studied at Harvard. He graduated in 1947 and the first of his books of verse was published in 1954. He was variously employed as tree-surgeon, journalist, teacher, house-painter, pollster and, in 1968, he was a candidate for US Congress, running on the Liberal Party’s anti-Vietnam war platform; he was known locally as a fiddler, banjo-player and dance-caller. Poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker and London Magazine, and anthologies, including the 1996 Norton Anthology. Peter was well known for his live performances and was twice Visiting Poet at the Cheltenham Festival. A profile of Peter by Brad Leithauser can be read on the The New Yorker here.
Tree Time
No, no. I’m not angry you’re late.
See, I just happened to notice
this entire hillside of trees –
maple and oak mostly, and tall
also, maybe sixty / seventy-five
feet, standing close together
from the road-shoulder on up
like a well behaved crowd on bleachers,
waiting for a parade – and fell
to marveling what it could be
they are waiting for, held there,
each trunk to its shackle of turf
for life, and none the worse for it,
shimmering and swaying in fact
as if trumpets and kettledrums could be heard
already… and – well –
it is hard to conceive
(as I guess we’re supposed to) that,
seen from a tree’s viewpoint,
there’s no view and no point; that
despite the enormity and duration
of the enterprise, a maple or oak
doesn’t know it exists, let alone
how many decades it’s waited.
Or are we too little, too
hurried, to grasp so great
a magnitude of anticipation, so
millennial a patience – though
not unmoved at the thought of it?
Published: 1 December 2007
ISBN: 978-1905208074
Pages: 98
“as fresh and valuable as ever.”
George Szirtes, Poetry Review
Peter Kane Dufault (1923 – 2013) grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., and studied at Harvard. He graduated in 1947 and the first of his books of verse was published in 1954. He was variously employed as tree-surgeon, journalist, teacher, house-painter, pollster and, in 1968, he was a candidate for US Congress, running on the Liberal Party’s anti-Vietnam war platform; he was known locally as a fiddler, banjo-player and dance-caller. Poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker and London Magazine, and anthologies, including the 1996 Norton Anthology. Peter was well known for his live performances and was twice Visiting Poet at the Cheltenham Festival. A profile of Peter by Brad Leithauser can be read on the The New Yorker here.
