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| Joseph Harris was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He came to Aiken, South Carolina, in 1957 as headmaster of an Episcopal school (Mead Hall) and retired from this position after 27 years. During his lifetime, he published poetry and short stories in over 250 literary journals and other magazines, and ten anthologies, plus a festschrift for Karl Shapiro. |
| Canals Canals, whether Suez or alimentary, are maps of our finiteness. From birth's bloody canal to light, through death's tunnel, some say, to another light. Even mind, that free-roving bird of myth, so idolized by the cult-makers of symbol, has its canals, with estuaries to insight or Skinner boxes of madness, depending on the current of tide that flows between the Scylla of self and the Charybdis of terror. ***************Joseph Harris Copyright 1997 |