Forests of words, seasonally cropped on limbs upon limbs, and then dropped to the ground and scattered to the skies like leaves in a late autumn wind. Platitudes, raked into piles and burned, or bagged and thrown away, and remembered...
Encomiums, a form of ode originated by the Greeks, developed as an extended discourse of praise for victors of the ancient Olympics, which endured for more than one thousand years, starting around 776 B.C. and ending around 393 A.D. The...
