"Signs" is composed of found text from Patrick W. Gainer's "Witches, Ghosts and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians" (1975). Emma Aylor on "Signs"
What Sparks Poetry: Charles Baxter on Theodore Roethke's "The Meadow Mouse" "When a poem begins to pile up the similes, comparing an object to multiple other objects, there’s going to be trouble. Multiple similes signify instability. An emotional shift is likely to take place, a disappearance or a metamorphosis. What we get in the second part of 'The Meadow Mouse' is a disappearance."
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