Age Of The Fern Comments

Thank you. I grew up on hills overlooking the Mississippi delta where once the sea did stretch to the horizon. The poem begins in the archaic time of dinosaurs. The fall here is not the biblical fall of man for man does not yet exist. The asteroid fell and extincted life only to begin again. When man arrives he is given a garden equal to the sea. Fire is an essential gift also. The test is what man will do with his dominion and his capacity to love. I fear we may have failed the test.