everything is laminated

"Ironically, I who profess no religion find the whole of my life a religious pilgrimage. The origins of this hunger are as mysterious as the reasons why we, who are last year’s dust and rain, have risen from that dust to look about with the devised crystal of a raindrop before we subside once more into snow and whirling vapor."

slumber roused from
to what end
journey's scarab

gargantuan buy
pitching book handful
after book handful

not even salvage

Ah! someone else has read Darconville's Cat.

"And flying monkey cupid
Leads his squadron down the fjord."

--"Winter Wheat"