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[percy-l] "Weather Alert", by Larry Rhu, a poem about Walker Percy at the Waffle House
- From: "Henry P. Mills III" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
- To: Percy-L <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [percy-l] "Weather Alert", by Larry Rhu, a poem about Walker Percy at the Waffle House
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 06:40:23 -0500
Dear Percy-L,
I’m delighted to share with you Percy-L member Larry Rhu’s poem about his imagined meeting with Walker Percy at the Waffle House. The selection comes from his recently published poetry collection, Pre-owned Odyssey & Rented Rooms (2024). I also attach a PDF version of the poem that includes his poem "Amor Fati” (pps. 98-99).
See the listserv book announcement from last week at the following link, which includes a YouTube video of Larry reading several of his poems: https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/percy-l/2025-01/msg00000.html Larry hails from Columbia, SC.
Thank you for giving your permission for us to enjoy your fine work, Larry! I'm certain Larry would be glad for any responses or interest to his poem.
Best wishes,
Henry Mills
Director / Percy-L Manager
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Weather Alert
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses the
Waffle House Index as an unofficial metric to determine the effect
of a storm and to estimate the scale of assistance necessary for
recovery.
As the hurricane approaches, I imagine
breakfast conversation over eggs over
easy with biscuits at the Waffle House
in Covington with Walker Percy.
Don't go so easy on Binx Bolling, he wrote
about a piece of mine about The Moviegoer
and invited me across the Lake to visit.
Binx can get cozy with the reader! Charmed,
the unsuspecting esthete drops his guard.
Florence is storming Florence, and Columbia
is next. Historic flooding washed away
canals, fouling our water four months after
a boy from here massacred a prayer group
(hoping to start a race war, so he said).
I never knew a Florentine more honest,
Cassio remarks about Iago, a Venetian,
namesake of the angelic militant
against the Moors, Santiago Matamoros.
Far from the Grand Canal, in storm-tossed Cyprus
a few acts later, Iago tries to murder
Cassio. The sky is darkening overall.
Denying facts and stats in tweets, our Ba'al,
the god of storms, ignores the Waffle House.
His Sharpie stroke reroutes the hurricane.
(c) Lawrence F. Rhu, 2024
Attachment:
(c)Larry-Rhu-Pre-owned-Odyssey-&-Rented-Rooms-Sample(2024).pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
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[percy-l] "Weather Alert", by Larry Rhu, a poem about Walker Percy at the Waffle House,
Henry P. Mills III, 02/01/2025
- Re: [percy-l] "Weather Alert", by Larry Rhu, a poem about Walker Percy at the Waffle House, John Pearson, 02/01/2025
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