Sunday, August 20, 2023

Poetry post--John Gardner

Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian,
Inner walls like speckled snakeskin,
Trumpet shaped, fit for a small
Angel's grimly puckered lips
Set on the Last Day to call
Ants and bees to Apocalypse,
What sins too minute to mention
Wouldst thou bring to man's attention,
Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian?
John Gardner
Poetry illustration of word associations in On Becoming a Novelist, Harper and Row,1983, p. 126 *
He died of motor cycle accident--1982. *

Barack Obama's book list--

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/12/20/barack-obama-favorites-2024/77105982007/