IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE
BY GARY ADAMS

Not many people remember
in Superman comics from 1949 to 1953
that Superman wrote poetry
and they were super poems able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

and though his super imagery did not lead the American poets
to throw off the shackles of consumer capitalism
or the poets of Russia to destroy the system of Stalin

he kicked the asses of Mr Eliot, Mr Pound, and Ms Moore
and had Wallace Stevens and Dylan Thomas
not had kryptonite
who knows how far he could have gone