Ode to an Encyclopedia

“Questing Beast of blue and gold, you were my companion” / James Arthur

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O hefty hardcover on the built-in shelf in my parents’ living room,
O authority stamped on linen paper, molted from your dust jacket,
Questing Beast of blue and gold, you were my companion

on beige afternoons that came slanting through the curtains
behind the rough upholstered chair. You knew how to trim a sail
and how the hornet builds a hive. You had a topographical map

of the mountain ranges on the far side of the moon and could name ...

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Issue 37 / December 10, 2015
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