One Volume Missing
Green sludge of a riverbank,
swirled and blotched,
as if a tree above him were shuffling
cards. Who would have thought
the binding of a “Standard Work
of Reference in the Arts,
Science, History, Discovery and Invention”
could bring back
.
slow afternoons with a line and a bent nail
here, his wingtips balanced
on a scuffed linoleum square
at the basement rummage sale
of the A.M.E. Zion Church?
.
He opens Motherhood-Orion and finds
orchids on the frontispiece
overlain with tissue,
fever-specked and drooping
their enflamed penises.
.
Werner’s Encyclopedia,
Akron, Ohio, 1909:
Complete in Twenty-five Volumes minus one —
.
for five bucks
no zebras, no Virginia,
no wars.
Submitted November 16, 2018 at 08:19AM by gunnysaxon https://ift.tt/2FrLVtn
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