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Reading a book the
man
says reading a
book
the words
like a fishbone
choke on life
a gasp meaning
the book falls
open
the man says the
book
a slip of paper
catches the wind
sails the open sky
the man says
until
he taps a white
cane
on the way
Alphabet
With the craneТs
flight
ages flew past
also
the babble of the
crib
the childТs zeal
then the frown
of unfounded words
then the man
in the desert of
thought
alone before
temptation
bent, yielding
O why do ideas
soar so grandly
with that
spoon-billed
long-necked
silhouette
flapping molecular
north?
Why does passion
lift so thin?
This zeal to
a lone man
emerges from a
cisternТs
mouth one day
into blaring sun
& their
majestic brace
in which all the
letters
of all the words
ever to be writ
ever to be writ
are
David Appelbaum is a hiker and biker, former editor of Parabola Magazine, and the publisher
of Codhill Press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Commonweal and Rhino.