The World You Knew Is Gone Forever

What though the radiance which was once so bright / Be now for ever taken from my sight, / Though nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; / We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind . . . . . -- William Wordsworth

Epigram for "The World You Knew Is Gone Forever"

Seen from afterward the time appears to have been / all of a piece which of course it was but how seldom / it seemed that way when it was still happening and was / the air through which I saw it as I went on thinking / of somewhere else in some other time whether gone / or never to arrive and so it was divided / however long I ws living it . . . . .

-- W.S. Merwin, from "Completion"

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About Me

gg: . . . was born on April 30, 1949 in what was then called a "hospital for unwed mothers" known as The Willows in Kansas City, Missouri. He was adopted by Harry & Margaret (McCall) Green of Wichita, Kansas and grew up in Wichita where he graduated from Wichita State University (1972). After working in Boston for a year, he attended The University of Utah where he received his M.A. in Creative Writing in 1974. Green has also lived in the Philadelphia area and in Columbus, Ohio, where he taught at The Ohio State University, the Torah Academy and in writing programs in the public schools. As a "poet of the 70's," he published several collections of poetry including World-Weary Polka and Mustard Notebook. In recent years, he has recorded two homemade solo "rehearsal" CD's of his own songs (Peasant Cantata & Another Think) as well as a "cover" CD of early Dylan songs (Tender Candor Vendor). In 1999, Green founded the Mythoklastic Therapy Institute and has dedicated every waking minute since then to his work as a Mythoklastic Therapist.

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