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Mystery Breathing

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I’m looking at my books

I think I really like

Mysteries,

Which is to say

Mystery

The numinous

The liminal

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Could numinous

Mean pneumo-

As in breathing?

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And more fancifully,

Myst-

As in fog

Though which

We go inexorably

As heartbeat

And do not know

What we’ll encounter

On the way?

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I mean,

I like the plain thing

That Jane or Hercule

Must resolve

And I like the modern things

By James

Or Aaron, Charlotte

Elizabeth

P. D.

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But there is the other thing that

Contents of books

Point to

Even to hold them

What’s in here?

Out there?

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Scary stories?

Parts of them?

Without doubt—shouldn’t

Faith be scary as

It’s thrilling?

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And then

The pattern seems to be

That all things

Will not be known

Until the end

With denouement to follow

If an epilogue

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Then

We reach for another,

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Which is why

We make a treasure-trove

Of libraries

Or simply having

Lots of books

That might be in forms

Of electrons

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We are curious

We want to solve

Even as we

Want to be resolved

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What are the greater mysteries?

How shall they end?

Maybe we should read together

Or at least

Discuss them

Piecemeal

On the way

All together

On the way

And over endings

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C L Couch

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