Excerpts from JeFF Stumpo's diluvium, a 64-page poetic sequence / long poem wherein rhyming poems, representing "the conscious utterances of Noah and/or his wife as they wait out the Flood on the ark," are surrounded by an "ocean of free verse, word salad, and visual poetry (raindrops, a hurricane, the darkness of the hold, wings, etc.) representing their subconsciouses, or perhaps a Collective Unconscious." The project, says Stumpo, "tracks them through an Eriksonian development, from metaphorical birth onward. What begins steeped in Judeo-Christian mythology slowly gives way to a humanist worldview, though there are also bits of Hinduism and Buddhism sprinkled throughout."