I followed Elizabeth Bishop's description of her "Sandpiper" ("Questions of Travel", 1965) as "a student of Blake" to William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" (c. 1803, published 1863): "To see a world in a grain of sand." Then I recalled Nobody (Gary Farmer) reciting the poem in Jim Jarmusch's 1995 film "Dead Man": "Every night and every morn / Some to misery are born. / Every morn and every night / Some are born to sweet delight. / Some are born to sweet delight, / Some are born to endless night. " And then I remembered the Palo Alto High School literary magazine edited by English teacher Barney Tanner: "Grains of Sand". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 5 November 2025)

Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Jim Jarmusch, and my high-school English teacher Barney Tanner