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Poetry for Novel Agents
Published onFeb 27, 2025
Poetry for Novel Agents
Novel Agents (1991)
Andrew Leicester (British-American, b. 1948)
Ceramic tile mosaic floor
An Iowa Art in State Buildings Project for the Molecular Biology Building. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Dragon: A Novel Agent
By Vince Gotera
The dragon flying over Yggdrasil
is a mishmash of scraps, a basilisk
with a myriad wings, claws, legs, and scales.
On the tree winds a snake, the tempter full
of lies. On either side are two grave risks:
a scorpion with its venomous tail,
a tarantula with fangs, poisonous,
hairy. Such is our life, a potent mix
of dangers from all sides, directions, while
somewhere, a mirage hidden in clouds is
unforeseen, an angel.
—curtal sonnet
