Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve

A POEM

By Gwendolyn C. Carr | November 1983

As aliens yearn

For the native land.

We still return

To the garden —

Taste ancient fruit,

Graft seasoned sins

Onto new generations.

Failed Species?

For twenty million years or more

This planet fed the Dinosaur.

It makes you sit…

The Prodigal Father and His Child

“Well, Father, my share of the farm has

been turned into gold.

I take it…

The Chain

The chain that’s fixed to the throne of Jove,

One link dissolved, the whole creation…