Preludes

All of the glory that had broken on meSurrounded me and saw me through and throughAlthough I had no idea how to nameA power that engulfed me totallyAnd turned my soul onto another road.--Book XVI, lines 700-704Preludes is a soul's journey from infancy to adulthood--from the Ohio Valley to south Florida, from grade school to college in New England and travel abroad, and ultimately to a knowledge of its maker. The author is unabashedly and sometimes almost naively Romantic, and the poem shows both