A groundbreaking. A toast. An elegy. A talking bouquet. A dedication. An urn. Inaugurations mark — call marks — the occasion. Such marks, when poetic, have the unfortunate status of occasional verse. Marginalized as “light poetry,” they often draw little attention within larger literary canons. As quaint, if not abandoned practices of ceremony, these forms … Continue reading Notes on the Occasion; or, Gifts for Future Arrivals