Comments on: Teaching Freshman Composition

By: edward mycue

edward mycue — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:31:22 +0000

WHEEL

When itâ€™s dusk, sometimes
the sun sets into channels
first red, then
into yellow, pink.

I am doing, I am done
and I stay here. I made
the emotional choices,

never guessed
that ink could feel
this way, desire
to turn the wheel.

Edward Mycue

By: jd

jd — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:14:33 +0000

Well, Ed, I have a professional interest in such things. You, on the other hand, are the purest poet I know — all poetry all the time & why not? I find your stance deeply admirable. For all kinds of reasons, I’ve adopted a professional stance despite the fact it sometimes feels like a straitjacket.

By: edward mycue

edward mycue — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:23:20 +0000

joseph, youre thoughtfully & parthian-like a pleasant polemicist.

agree w/point 3 that persons who have a reason to write can learn to write well,& other points ok.

but ive written for no reason i can think of:

not completion nor expiation not contemplation nor publication, education, explanation;

not cared;

ending here toothlessly masticating at the pierian spring.

id think idve believed id wasted my life should idve had faith in some agenda or program–

not even a wide world–lucky a pillow n bed.

a provident rancor at least would have justified expression.

too easy for me to do the miles coverdale and morph into the wallpaper that changed on me emerging from my autonomous magic finger.

edward mycue