A Mouse in a Trap
Ted Kooser
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A tiny wood raft was afloat
on the cold gray sea
of the cellar floor, and to it
a dead mouse clung,
About Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser, the US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006, is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon, 2004), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; and Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (Nebraska, 2002). His latest book, Valentines, was published in February by the University of Nebraska Press.
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