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...read, the poems become richer and richer. Associations are drawn behind the images, and stories begin to emerge. Sometimes there is only a hint of that story. One poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...
...book is divided into three parts: A Jewel in the World, Alternating Currents and A Kiss in Space. The book crescendoes to its center, the poems becoming more and more complex and more demanding. The center part, alternating Currents, is actually a single longer poem. In it we see Helen Keller and her teacher, Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Watson. Among these pairs run parallels, threads that wind through all three stories...
...there is no such thing as an Eph--it's the nickname of our founder, Col. Ephraim Williams. The physical representation of the Eph is a purple cow. Personally, I've never seen one. But I'd rather see than be one, as the poem goes...
...there is no such thing as an Eph - it's the shortened name of our founder, Colonel Ephraim Williams. The physical representation of the Eph is a purple cow. Personally, I've never seen one. But I'd rather see than be one, as the poem goes...
...even wrote a poem about it. Here goes: Roses are red/violets are blue/poverty sucks/free Mumia...