Poetry of Issue #7        Page 13

APPRECIATIONS: FOUR POETS
                  1V
           (For Howard Nemerov)

Nemerov is the Prince
Of Conundrums, who makes Hamlet blush.
The most elegant flip-flop artist
In the Western World,
Balancing on a tadpole.
(It is slippery, but he will try.)
But I warn thee, fishers of men:
That’s one whale of a tadpole.

(Unearthed from my archives, 1977)

  Jim Story