…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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