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I have rather belatedly: I have rather belatedly learned of the darker side of this celebrated historical public figure. So much had been glossed over in our history textbooks that we elevated causes and men that a deeper look would show us otherwise.

Thank you.  Those words will: Thank you.  Those words will keep the sequence going, for sure.  To me, for this particular sequence, it is more important for it to serve the readers to whom and for whom it is intended than to state anecdotes from my autobiography or imagination.

Anazon has, or used to have,: Anazon has, or used to have, it; but I have never found it on the internet.

This latest entry in the: This latest entry in the Sojourner series accelerates right before our eyes, as the lines shorten and speaker's description of the process takes us to the conclusion; and the process has been so satisfying to the Sojourner, that the Sojourner has forgotten that someone significant (a Beloved?---I would like to think so) is actually absent. Decades ago, the French Poet, Paul Valery, wrote a couple of Socratic Dialogues that, when published in this country, carried a Preface by Wallace Stevens.  One of the dialogues is about a dancing girl, Athikte, and how her accelerating dance takes possession both of her body and of the philosophers, including Socrates, who then construct their dialogue around her performance.  This poem reminded me of that Dialogue very much.   Admittedly, I cannot read the original French text and have to rely only upon Stevens' excerpts from, and description of, it; but I what I do know of the Dialogue was brought to mind by your magnificent poem; and it is always a great thing when one poem converses with another in the reader's mind.  Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First, the poem is definitely: First, the poem is definitely an excellent sequel, and gives us more insight into the Sojourner.  I am also very pleased to see it designated to a folder entitled Sojourner Series.  The whole poem is beautiful, but nothing in it quite prepares the reader for the impact of those final three lines in which metaphor and myth take control of the poem to bring it to conclusion (but, I hope, not a series conclusion:  Sojourner deserves more, and so do your readers).   I appreciate the mention in the notes section.  And I will take this brief space to remind you that postpoems just does not have enough of your Poetry.  Some more, please . . . very much some more, please . . . .

Thank you for giving me one: Thank you for giving me one of the finest comments I have ever received, and for selecting this particular poem on which to comment.  Although I tried to make it seem less like an autobiographical poem (which, too me, can seem to be too exclusive), it does proceed from an autobiographical event, which happened in the mid-autumn of my seventh grade year.  The change it effected was almost palpable in its resonance through the rest of my life.

The final two lines are very: The final two lines are very wise.