Ego

I looked ‘round the rim of the sky.

I looked and I wondered why,

Why God had horizoned the sky to be

Precisely swung ‘round the hub of Me.

-       Cooke[1] 

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[1] Edmund Vance Cooke, popularly known as “the poet laureate of childhood,” was born in 1866 in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. He began working at 13-14 years old at the White Sewing Machine Co. factory and stayed there for 14 years. In 1893, he became a self-employed poet and lecturer. His first book of poems, A Patch of Pansies, came out the next year. Four years later, he married Lilith Castleberry; they had five children. He published at least 16 books of verse, as well as other books, but he is best known for his poem How Did You Die?  (Source: Representative Poetry Online – rpo.library.utoronto.ca)