Welcome back to the Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

I'm David Kern.

Today's poem is by Luis Bogan, an American poet who lived from 1897 to 1970.

And she was the fourth poet laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945 and the first woman to hold the title.

The poem that I'm going to read today is called Putting to See and it was included in the December

1936 issue of poetry magazine. I'm reading this poem because like the poem that I read last week

by Zbignu Herbert, this poem was selected by one of my colleagues for our subscriber content.

Last week, we sent on an email for former magazine for our subscribers.

And we asked some of our colleagues with the editorial team for the magazine to mention and write a little bit about their favorite poems for fall.

And the one that my colleague, Brandon LeBlanc,

chose was called Putting to See.

It was this poem.

And so I wanted to share it with you a little bit,

and then I'm going to share a little bit of his comments

because they're quite nice. So here, as chosen by Brandon LaBlaw, is putting to sea.

Who in the dark has cast the harbor chain. This is no journey to a land we know. The autumn night

receives us, hoarse with rain, storm flakes with roaring foam the way we go.

Sodden with summer, stupid with its loves, the country which we leave,

and now this bare circle of ocean which the heaven proves deep as its height and barren with despair.

Now this whole silence through which nothing breaks,

now this whole sea which we possess alone,

flung out from shore with speed a missile takes

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