and so it is in everything where power moves.

　　Our next poem chosen as one of Americans favorites is by Rita Dove. She was the youngest person and the first African-American ever named Poet Laureate of the United States. She served from 1993 to 1995.

　　Rita Dove is a professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Many of her poems are based on the lives of her family, especially her grandparents. Dove often writes about the experience of being a mother, like in this poem, called Daystar.

　　She wanted a little room for thinking:

　　but she saw diapers steaming on the line,

　　a doll slumped behind the door.

　　So she lugged a chair behind the garage to sit out the childrens naps.

　　Sometimes there were things to watch

　　the pinched armor of a vanished cricket,

　　a floating maple leaf. Other days

　　she stared until she was assured

　　when she closed her eyes

　　shed see only her own vivid blood.

　　She had an hour, at best, before Liza appeared

　　pouting from the top of the stairs.

　　And just what was mother doing

　　out back with the field mice? Why,

　　building a palace. Later

　　that night when Thomas rolled over and

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