Hamilton with Understudy? Have you seen the musical Hamilton? If you haven’t seen it, and a chance comes along, I highly recommend you see the show. Yes, the topic seems dry. Alexander Hamilton, that guy on the ten dollar bill…
Moving on from Swallowtail to Wasp Last week it was the two-tailed swallowtail. This week, the paper wasp. Not just the wasp, but also the nest it leaves behind when summer is over and wasps go wherever wasps go. Have…
Poem of the week Papilio Multicaudata picks up where I left off last week, with another persona poem. In this poem, the swallowtail butterfly gets to speak.
This week’s poem, Penny Thoughts, is spoken from the point of view of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. She held down the fort while he was off hero-ing.
This week’s poem is one of the nine sections of a longer work, entitled Flood. Each section stands alone. This is part III of the poem.
