Susan Kay Anderson created “Science Gossip: Leaves from Modern Trees” from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Science Gossip is a periodical which Fort often cites. Please click here to read.

About the poem and the process of composing it, Susan Kay Anderson writes:

I changed the order of sentences and broke them into lines. I added punctuation and also took some out and added or deleted capitalization. I felt somewhat like a wizard while doing this and realized that this text is describing the wizardry of the Earth.

Also by Susan Kay Anderson at Heron Tree: “The Problem,” “Digression,” “At Radio Central,” “When I Was a Boy,” and “Every Singer,” and “Bay Tree.”