@jorie_graham I attended a Fanny Howe lecture at the University of Chicago. We all sat at the stolid intellectual table. Howe pressed “play” on a boombox and she sat there silently reading along with a recording she made of her talk. It was confusing and delightful.
Two about science/art and art/science. Of all the amazing aspects of the Field Museum, I think I have written most about the dioramas and Quetzalcoatlus...
Three days, thirty cat poems. One of my favorites is about two cats named Spatula and Plunger. A few lines, based on the humans' description of the cats, read:
sometimes your minds seem
as inert as the objects
you're named after...
@SketchesbyBoze As a poet, I humbly suggest that a firm understanding of simple mathematical, statistical, and scientific principles would be a great place to start... E.g., the difference between correlation and causation.
@paleobyliam I remember seeing enormous earth-moving equipment at a coal site in Wyoming, thinking I'd finally seen a moving object akin to some of the biggest sauropods.
Thank you to Haley for her love of mollusks. We also had a fascinating discussion about Watergate and the historical patterns of distrust in government. That part of our conversation colored this poem in political tones.
It's been a little while--but here's a poem written for a long-time Field Museum volunteer. Mary provided the content, I added an idea and sculpted it into a poem...