Wormwood by Apryl Fox

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Wormwood by Apryl Fox

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good poem!<br><br>I enjoyed the unusual theme and the animated imagery.
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This poem had an interesting stream-of-consciousness / stream of imagery running through it that fit its free-wheeling theme (running from the small and mundane to the literally cosmic).<br><br>My only question is, why does the poem refer to 'wormwood' as if it is the worm rather than the medium through which the worm burrows?  I have this vague memory of 'wormwood' having a particular meaning in apocalyptic literature / apocryphal religious writings -- would this have anything to do with it?<br><br>Robert M.
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I think Wormwood also another name for the so-called Planet X.
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New Testiment, I think. Revelations. Wormwood was the name of the falling star that destroyed a third of the Earth. Coincidentally, guess what Chernobyl means? Wormwood. The conspiracy theorists and doomsday prophets really took that one and ran with it.
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<br>Gee, that would be like Con Ed naming a reactor China Syndrome #1.<br><br>Robert M.<br><br>
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