Description: Well past the tipping point
Well past the tipping point
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I started subscribing to Poem A Day some months ago – out of curiosity and to add some variety to the daily deluge of spam and work emails – one of the first poems to catch my eye was The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens. It had a powerful effect on me for reasons which I found beyond analysis, or at least beyond my comprehension – I think partly the justaposition of words and the images evoked by them trigger memories/emotions that would not have surfaced otherwise. Anyway, it was good to come acro