Looking for the literary significance of my latest grandchild, I turn to Walcott, Whitman, Masefield, Coleridge, and Byron. What emerges is a mystical seeker.
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Imagining Little Ocean’s Future
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To Esmé and Alban with Love (No Squalor)
With names from Salinger and Blake, my two new grandchildren have promising destinies.
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