http://disqus.com/by/rickcusick/enSat, 25 Jul 2009 00:34:12 -0000http://spoonriveranthology.net/spoon/river/view/Dora_Williams#comment-13304036<p>I should also mention that this pair of poems are two of my favorite poems in the world. I actually have part of "Emily Sparks" as the focus of on oil painting I commissioned on my living room wall. Funny ole world, innit?</p>rickcusickSat, 25 Jul 2009 00:34:12 -0000http://spoonriveranthology.net/spoon/river/view/Dora_Williams#comment-13303936<p>Hey ResearchGal, you're on to something. I think the parallel is exact and that masters meant to have both Rueben and Dora in Paris at the same time, not knowing it, on opposite ends of the social. He "threw her over" (after she got pregnant, I surmise) and the cad ran away and got his due "with a black eyed coquette" She, who was so wronged, was on the other side of town drinking champagne. Maybe she did kill her husbands, but if she did it was because she was so mistreated by Rueben and Tyler the villian...</p>rickcusickSat, 25 Jul 2009 00:29:55 -0000