SAINT JULIAN PRESS

Cynthia Atkins ~ Poet

God Is A Library

 
If you look under G in the card catalog,
a hunched-over landlady will rent you 
a space made of dust, albeit, a little domain
of quiet—Where the rent is cheap and so 
is the debt, and silence is not morbid.  
On these premises, text and rhetoric 
mix a sexy playground for words.  
Exquisite human machine of pathos 
and debris, allowed the pages to be set 
on letterpress, then ink bled and seeped 
into a refinery of senses.  All the kids played 
Hopscotch on a city street.  We’re polar opposites 
on a stage of belief, fact and faith.  Yes, Borges 
digressed for an atheist and an Aleph.  Delinquent,
these prophets and scholars broke the dress code 
in favor of out-of-fashion souls.  Two students 
knock knees to make contact.  Egg to sperm, 
pen to pulp—Ideas took flight to where our 
better angels reside—Where chairs are stacked 
on tables at the end of the day.

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