Exemplum Trahit – Example Draws

At Notre Dame in grade ten
the coach taught English too

No course outline to guide
and no homework for us or him 

Cy would but bow
his blonde Adonis head
into an ancient book of verse

and read it with such love
we had no choice but to follow him in

In loving memory of Cy (Pope) MacDonald

1 thoughts on “Exemplum Trahit – Example Draws

  1. Ken Christopher

    Nice oneNeil. That’s how you teach. I had a prof at university, a follower of the Black Mountain poets, who read Whitman out loud, and as if by magic I understood him for the first time.

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