Read this episode on Substack! Text of the poem here. Mea culpa: Yes, in the heat of the moment, I mispronounced mise en scene. A la guillotine! Topics discussed include: -Some po-biz kvetching -Morri Creech! -The telos of Versecraft -The "ghost" of pentameter -The Stevensian cosmovision and the metaphysics of metaphor -The axis mundi -Nicholas of Cusa and coincidentia oppositorum -The Moirai -Contronyms -"An Ordinary Childhood" by Morri Creech -Selve oscura dolce -I.A. Richards a...