ANGELA BALL


                                     



ONE-BOOK AUTHOR




A one-book author begins to use his book
as everything: pillow, plate, pie safe. The book,

overjoyed to expand
its usefulness, erupts in pleasure,

contains the sting of jumping down from someplace
when your feet are very cold, and a girl

who, taught about charlatans, runs
right into one's arms.

When read, the author's one book
mentally caresses its tree

lying nude on the bed
of a long truck toward

its transformation.






TYPO 34