The Abbreviated Bible Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

The Abbreviated Bible



I write biblical poems
on diminutive pages.
It necessitates an economy
of meaning where even
shorthand is too long
coercing me to spell
in shortthought.

Morse was judicious
in reducing Genesis
to a pair of dashes
that I depict as an X
across the Bible and when
reading it, it is as if the
Grimm Brothers wrote it.

Sunday, September 20, 2009
Topic(s) of this poem: pome
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