Gary Fincke
Teaching English in the Biology Lab
The sea life chart is a prop For Melville, the mounted cat A visual aid for Poe. Pigs and rabbits, unborn, sit On shelves like family photos While everybody opens Their textbooks to Dickinson And Whitman, Wharton and Crane. Tenth grade is the year for frogs Dissected, worms halved and pinned. It’s the year of …