As If They Were a Basket, a poem elaborated by nature and by science

This slim chapbook presents a rather lyrical poem by the author then purports to (and quixotically does) draw parallels and commentary on it, line by line, from naturalistic memoirs, diaries and scientific observations by writers in those fields, all properly annotated, each of the three aspects running concurrently and developing its own but companionable sense.

The volume starts off by way of introduction with the following quote by scientist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson: “We begin by describing the shape of an object in the simple words of common speech; we end by defining it in the precise language of mathematics; and the one method tends to follow the other in strict scientific order and historical continuity.” It continues with a museum photograph of the skeleton of the Irish Elk which is, in fact, neither Irish nor an elk. 44 pages. Limited Edition.