The Exhaustion of Libraries
Adenoidal Alexander
Barking brachiatic candor
Clinches dictionary deals.
Every epidermis feels.
Fiercely grinding gravitation,
Hopeless, heaving integration:
Inner jocularities
Jangle kabalistic keys.
Lockstep lexicography
Mutters more necrophagy,
Nibbling open older pain:
Prose's quiet queenly reign.
Rotting signifier's sign,
Tome to urn, up voided vine,
Withered with xerography:
X yields you zero's zealotry.
[First published in Boston University Arts & Sciences 12, Spring 2003]
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