William Harmon

William Harmon grew up in Concord, North Carolina, a cotton-mill town about thirty miles northeast of Charlotte. At sixteen he entered the University of Chicago, where in 1958 he earned an A.B. in English. He then

Berryman

by William Harmon (b. 1938)

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Well. I guess the elegy is dead. If so, then

let's let it roll to rest-o. Exeunt omnes. Ergo,

timor mortis conturbat

mé tóo, I reckon. Oh I get such green-edged vertigo

as the sick poet must have on the quickly lifting

bridge's shift of footing, or leaning peaked up above the grave

of his felo de se of a father down

in unlikely Oklahoma

(or wherever) toward the lower end of the fatherly

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