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.

Turning Fifty

An iPoem

by Robert Hedin

for Carolyn

So this is how it must’ve looked,
The gates to the garden
Creaking shut,

People on couch

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