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Original poem reprinted online here: "Enoch's Blocks" by Olivia Clare Originally read: April 9, 2013 More information about the Poet: Olivia Clare So I looked up Enoch on the first read.  I found out that he's the "Son of Cain" or "the Son of Jared whose great grandfather was Noah."  Then after rereading the title, I find the allusion doesn't quite fit -- even the poem is a bit epic in an another way.  No, the poem is more about associations -- whether it be through sound "Enoch's Blocks," letter, colors, simple associations -- that first connect. "Little Enoch learned his colors from the letter blocks"  The opening line reads as a preface to what Enoch learned, but also this is a forewarning of what the reader should learn -- how the associations happen. Then the next stanza, which is mostly in parenthetical, plays with the idea of signifier and signified.  "A is the color of a fleet, / B is the color of war and de...