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Gary Brocks
Poems
Aug 2018
LINES COMPOSED IN A BOOKSTORE ON THE TRANSCENDENT NATURE OF READING
No buttressed vaulted ceilings here,
or monkish men in robes of cloth,
a space where things are sold and bought
and yet, there is an atmosphere:
A cloistered hush outside of time,
etched in rows of words, wooden,
the self’s restrained demarcation
seeds this scene for the sublime.
“In the beginning was the word”,
nothing before that differentiation,
in the assemblage of imagination,
a whispered restless breath is heard, as
marks on paper command the motion
of eyes and thoughts across a texture
in which silence is a rapture,
the echo of yearning and union.
Copyright © 2003 Gary Brocks
180827F
#buttressed
#vaulted
#ceilings
#monkish
#robes
#cloistered
#hush
#sublime
#breath
#yearning
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Gary Brocks
M/New York, NY
(M/New York, NY)
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