“John Mills’ Letter of a Radio Engineer to his Son on Electricity and Matter”

M. E. Silverman created “John Mills’ Letter of a Radio Engineer to his Son on Electricity and Matter” from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills (1922). Please click here to read.

About the poem and the process of composing it, M. E. Silverman writes:

I am naturally drawn to words—all words. Sometimes a review or a letter or an old book will catch my eye and ear. It lingers the way the ocean does after you leave. It is then that I know I have to create something to keep it with me. When I came across Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills (1922), I was immediately struck by the poetic language, the imagery, the science, and mostly importantly the affection that pours through for his son.