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I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only/responsibility is to take down its bright, airy dictation/

Billy Collins

I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only/responsibility is to take down its bright, airy dictation/

Tags: mundane, poetry, small joys, writing

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About Billy Collins

William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.