At the September 2006 faculty meeting, English faculty member Rob Farnsworth, who spent the summer as the poet-in-residence at The Frost Place, a museum and arts center housed in poet Robert Frost’s former homestead in Franconia, N.H., read a poem of his own in memory of John Tagliabue as well as this poem of Tagliabue’s, “Sliding into the Future”:<\/p>\n
Achieving?
\nWhat is there to achieve? The event occurs at its
\nown accord
\nas the sea shell is made or the volcano erupts
\nor the lines
\nof a Shakespeare play are memorized; in due time
\nIt Happens
\nmomentously temporarily, the snow cap melts,
\nthe sea anemone
\nblossoms, the lizard\u2019s shadow is sketched in the
\nmemory.
\nThe anguish in the sick bed is engraved on
\nthe foam.
\nForms keep changing; clouds as much as deities;
\nand Zeus
\nis bewildered, transformed. The opulent is found
\nor lost in
\nthe twinkling of an eye. Someone performs a
\nritual in shadows.
\nThe lover leaves his bed; none knows what will
\nhappen next.
\nAchievements flare up like the flames of orange moths
\non Paros.
\nFaces keep appearing from the distant past. Boats appear
\nwith cargoes never seen before.<\/p>\n
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