Okay, you stopped me in my tracks with this.
How did I miss this one?
Ha. I had the same reaction you did. I remember reading the poem, but I didn’t pick up on THAT!
See the poem here: Obama Poem The Library of Congress, like most others, have been influenced by the title of the poem "Pop" saying that it "appears to capture a moment between the young Obama and his maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham". I'm not so sure-- the poet in the 'family' was Frank Marshall Davis.
If you look at Obama's book he makes references to this Frank who seems to be a central or at least important figure in his childhood; and he calls Frank a poet, which Frank Marshall Davis was.
It would seem the moments of reading poetry, like that referenced in the Obama poem, came at Frank's house. I'm not a poetry analyst, but this is no poem I want my President writing or my children studying in school, "He took too damn long...the blood rushing from his face to mine, as he grows small...something that may be squeezed out...points out the same amber stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and makes me smell his smell, coming from me"...I hate to think of what went on at Frank's house, who seems to be an admitted child molester.
See more on Davis here: usasurvival.org summary
Frank is dead, although one of his sons, Mark Davis, wrote a blog on the Obama campaign website defending his father (about being a communist, not a pevert). But we'll never know the real story of what went on with Frank, but if something sexual did go on there, it certainly sets up a typical pattern that could lead to what happened at Wright's church, whatever that may be, to be determined.