POETICKS

Note: I have this listed in my blog categories as “Unclassifiable Poem.”  However, every poem is classifiable: I just haven’t gotten around to classifying this one.

Note #2: A long time ago I could have read the math in the above and figured out what Ed’s poem is doing, but I have to confess I can’t now.  But it’s doing enough simply as the juxtapositioning of physics at the college level and a haiku ambiance to  work very nicely as a poem.  I’m understanding this stone girl as the moon, by the way.  Am thinking maybe she is in all of Ed’s poems about her, something I don’t remember thinking before. . . .

Well, he’s proven it for good now: Ed Baker is more interestingly crazy than I am:

I, meanwhile, am determined to spend the day working on the definitive version of my theory of the innate etiological drive–which compels most of  us to seek explanation.

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