So our new local paper came out today (the August issue) and they printed my poem WITHOUT the accompanying drawing, (even though they SAID they printed both...see underlined area above.)
This the drawing which was supposed to be ABOVE the bird, as my ART "explains" my poems (and vice versa.) It wasn't there. And I've always told this paper if they can't print both, leave them both OUT, but they just don't get it (Lol)!!
ANYway...
IN A STRANGE WAY, THOUGH, THE PAPER'S MISTAKE ADDS TO THE MEANING OF THE POEM. Let me explain! The whole point of the poem is about a bird that folks in Glendale, NY claimed to have spotted, though that would be EXTREMELY unlikely, to say the least, in that region. (The reference to "Roger Tory" is the late ROGER TORY PETERSON, famed Ornithologist, by the way.) Note that the words in the poem's title spell out "G.H.O.S.T." and the word "GHOST" appears in the BODY of the poem. The fact that the paper didn't print the art WITH the poem, though they claimed they DID, adds to the "missing" effect that the word "GHOST" suggests.
It's a mistake that helps me out, though I promise I will contact the paper to find out what happened (when I get time!!)
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