J.L. Kubicek: The Burgess Eye and The Olduvai Ear

THE BURGESS EYE AND THE OLDUVAI EAR
"On the train from Prague to Baden-Baden we traveled one thousand days and one thousand and one nights — extended the Appian Way" — Miroslav Skacel
Can poets, today, in our nuclear age, contribute any statling news? Has not all been honored or filled with spleen—subscription holding hands with non-subscribers? Whatever: animal, vegetable or mineral; loves and fears ... has not each been hailed or dam'd; appeared on talk shows? The answer, it would appear, lies with saints, at each pole, as each answers with a wavering yes, or a quiverin no. Poets, however, will continue to bay at the moon in adoration or trepidation, fully aware that you must change your life. In our world of exponential and fissionable knowledge the Burgess eye and Olduvai ear will continue to give birth to one thousand days and one thousand and one nights, enabling the poet to extend the Appian Way and to those few, annointed, notes arise, nearing and for the chosen touch the ineffable.
J.L. KUBICEK

J.L. Kubicek is a retired social worker from Lake Crystal, MN, USA. He is an avid bibliophile and a WWII infantry veteran.