No need to preserve the fiction of anonymity here. Rhina helped edit it. Simon, I'm delighted that watching the tussle over this hooked you on the DE. Your comments are great. Rhina, of course, it reading it right; and it is a coterie poem, the coterie being those who have read my books which furnish all the context required.
Pater Vincit Omnia
'Vincere' means to vanquish.
His last words to a son
and daughters in his anguish
played with the Latin language.
He smiled and said "Vince won."
from Very Far North
Soc Glasrud makes his first appearance, but he can be googled, even by the above nickname. And as I pointed out, Dick Davis, Dana Gioia, Charles Martin, Dave Mason, Tim Steele, and I have all delivered the Glasrud lecture at MSUM. He's the Harvard PhD who told me to go to Yale so I could study with Warren, a pretty central figure in my life as well as Dad's. I shall footnote him when the poem is in book form, but Tom Fleming is publishing it in Chronicles where it must stand on its own.
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