The Gods' Library


…Pahn is walking in coastal
                                                   woodland of tall thin trees
and bright shade       looking
           across a small canyon  
He stumbles
down to a creek        and as he follows it

A woman resembling a sister          hastily
                        dams it
                            with brush
  and mud        like a beaver…

…Pahn             and Aiks             are under
 the reservoir talking
She says
it is fifteen feet deep  

Pahn     reaches                up            to the surface
            to measure     and just         touches               the air
saying
          it must only   be     eight feet          deep
 
He remembers the ocean nearby

He has a sense of a high
                                              thin waterfall
that feeds this creek …


 …He is in the gods’ private library
                                                      with Juna

            It is a crowded cross
between a library of the 19th
              century          and a beatniks
apartment
                         reminiscent
of that coastal forest
in its haphazard
organization

Pahn is looking at a section
                 of books  complaining

that they are arranged
                       alphabetically             rather

than by subject          

            He is thinking
that the government books
                                  that list landforms              intentionally
                                                                              leave out
the features that are on
                                                  private property 

Juna points
          to one book
and Pahn says            that one
                                                  is his
taking it off the shelf
and tucking it
                   under his arm      



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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Some of these poems originally appeared in the following publications

Avocet
Dream International Quarterly
mojo risin'
The Muse Apprentice Guild (The MAG)
Transfer

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