- my history
About Metamorphosis
A short story
ENATIONS:
During the 1960s I went from being a high school student in a generally rural farming community to a college student in a large university that was basically a community of its own. This intertidal period in my life was as wave-tossed as that found along the shores that the University of Santa Barbara was fronted by to its east and south. It was a time of change in not only in habitation but in self-perspective and one froth with the challenge of finding one's footing in a world that seemed both enticing and threatening.
In this period I begun to become more aware of myself as an emotive individual and in the process of trying to cope and to survive the feelings that seemed much larger than myself I discovered a vent of expression in poetry. One collection of poems and brief comments that I wrote to myself I had titled: ENATIONS. While these outgrowths of my need to find my place in what was unfolding served as a way of coping they stand as testament to the conflicts and emotions that had overtakened my perspective.
From David Copperfield, by Dickens
". . . and now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away, but one face, shining on me like a heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all. And that remains."
June 21, 2007
© Jerry Copeland