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Upon a boat, by ocean bound,
Below the sun, upon the sound,
The bait, a line, a reel, a fish:
Bound for butter, herbs and dish.
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Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work and creative fiction have been widely published. A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at UGA, he wrote on Lookout Mountain, and continued to write, lecture and work for Delta Kappa Epsilon HQ. He was first published reading to the pledge class of Michigan DKE, in Ann Arbor in 2008. Recently, his poem Green Fire was read at the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union at UVA.
What a brilliant little gem!
I will at least, Joe, go along with the “little” part.
Thanks for the input and the read. Society of Classical Poets is no boring lot, that’s for certain.
This Berkeley Deke and his fine Mother and Father helped get me printed in hardback. He told me in ’08, “…that poem was really elaborate.” His girlfriend was so excellent and lovely, I took such as an symbolic indicator that he was “a bell cow” – one to follow, iow.
Snow shoveling in Ann Arbor and reviving the 1844 literary foundations of Delta Kappa Epsilon formed the 2 best tasks I had for 8 years: housed and fed during the Great Recession. Ergo, printed in 3 countries, 2x as many states.
To recall how grateful I’d better be I had a lady friend make me a sweatshirt: “The Son of God composted my B.S.”