[stylist] Poem - "Eve"

[Homme, James via stylist]

Hi Bill,
This is one I couldn't unlock. I was just thinking, though, that poetry can be like the joke that gets ruined if you have to explain it.

Thanks.

Jim


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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L Houts via stylist
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Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Eve"


Hello Blinks,

Here's a poem I wrote a couple of days ago.  It's in a less literary
form that I'm working on now, less concerned with certain literary
effects.  Also, it seems a subject appropriate to late Sunday afternoon.


--Bill


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Eve

Let's say I believe the Book

the same way I believe in apples and curiosity.

Eve, then, our mother first

was nobody's dupe; and the snake was no devil

but a wise townsman in that primest of towns.

"See all of the colors?" he said,

that giddy green mayor.

Our Eve saw all the pigments

of which the serpent was one

and wanted to paint.





copyright William L. Houts 2014


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