The Carpentered Hen The Carpentered Hen and Other Tamed Creatures by John Updike is the first poetry collection and first published book by John Updike, published by Harper in 1958.
Excerpt
“Why the Telephone Wires Dip…”
The old men say
young men in gray
hung this thread across our plains
acres and acres ago.
But we, the enlightened, know
in point of fact it's what remains
of the flight of a marvellous crow
no one saw:
Each pole, a caw.
