I.my brother and friend
who never hits his children
or turns on his wife
whose pacific good humor
disarms
who opens his home to
4 dogs
and friends of friends
on the holidays,
how is it
you spent 5 years
researching and writing
a masterful treatise on
"repeating firearms"
?
II.
the love of the printed word
must be genetic
for us
between us
we author
factual articles on
science and war
must write another
this page proof
if they scanned our dna
the amino acids would appear
as tiny numbered shelves
the volumes busy
creating more
how we know to write
or what we love appears
in softwood fibers
bound between the endplates
of our lives.
- bruce g marcot
10/84