Among the many notable poems in July’s Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal, John Allman’s urbane postmortem on a bizarre historical-poetic footnote, “On the Removal of Whitman’s Brain,” tapped me on the shoulder and commanded attention. According to Allman’s note on his poem, “During the attempt to remove Whitman’s brain for storage in a jar,” somebody dropped the goods:

“it must have rolled
when it hit the floor…

it must have formed like a
flower about its clipped medulla, gone flat

as a nebula seen edge-on..”

…For the rest of the story see

http://prosegarden.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-garden-of-verse-poets-brain.html