Early Encounters With Poetry

I saw, one summer (oh, seventy-three),

an evenng broadcast on public t.v.,

a sixty minute documentary

of T. S. Eliot's life and poetry.

 

That next summer (last without regrets).

an article I read on exploration

of space began with a massive quotaton

from "East Coker," second of Four Quartets.

 

Nine years before, an old book given me

discussed briefly, the Irish poet, A. E.

 

Starward

 

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