Original poem reprinted online here: " The Logic of a Lesser Loved Science" by Carolyn Moore More information about the Poet: Carolyn Moore Past me wrote, "follow the use of colons and how they are used in the poem" and I could see why rereading this poem. There's something definition based going on in this poem that ties in, lesser, loved, and science, as individual aspects or all at the same time. The title bleeds into the poem with, "can give us our bearings where we're lost. / Things vast and physical point the way." Here is the reference more so of the logic pointing the way -- but what of the lesser loved science? I feel there is a hinted definition with the next two lines, "Take the earth's geology of scars: / from each new shape-shift we learn caution." So the science of "geology of scars" is furthered turned into the metaphor with the introduction of the "we" speaker. The colon in this stanza serves a...
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