Poetry
If Novels are like Marriage Poetry is the Wedding Night
The poem said I must read deeply
into Judges and locate the exact
chapter and verse, else the line
I was using for its title would
be like a fishing lure without the hook.
Reeling in my childhood Illustrated Bible
from the distant end of the top shelf
of my bookcase, I searched and searched
until I found it: Judges 5:28. And lo!
Now the light glistens like a fish’s belly
and Yes, the grateful poem whispers, Oh yes
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