The Paleontologist’s Blind Date by Philip Memmer : American Life in Poetry #240 Ted Kooser, U.

We haven’t shown you many poems in which the poet enters another person and speaks through him or her, but it is, of course, an effective and respected way of writing. Here Philip Memmer of Deansboro, N.Y., enters the persona of a young woman having an unpleasant experience with a blind date. The Paleontologist’s Blind Date

You have such lovely bones, he says,