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THE GENIUS.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	177
Issue	2
Published	2000-12-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

   is standing at a stove in a bathrobe
   stirring a pot of soup with a long wooden spoon.

   Earlier this afternoon
   he was busy in the margins of a heavy book

   and tonight he will take a walk
   in the garden of calculus,

   but now there is only the vegetable soup,
   the circling of the spoon,

   the easy rotation of the wrist,
   and the aroma of onion and rosemary--

   the kind of moment when a brainstorm
   is very likely to roll in.

   Not when you are concentrating
   under a lamp in your study

   but when you are up in the woods
   lifting a stone onto a wall,
...

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