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Poems

Shorthand

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

Might you not have found him a little
exhausting, though? If, for example,
you were his mother, not given

to innovative thinking yourself,
and had this youth (in 1920
the word teenager was not current),

forever coming up with a new
interpretation of Genesis

or sketching plans for a contraption


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