Innocent Experience

The woman at the counter is an expert 
in the history of tumbled quartz pebbles
she knows like her hand back thus explains 
Cape May diamonds the color of your 
complexion yielding unfurnished openings  
fresh from the pocket of God awash with 
salt erosion blessing constancy plus
releasing a form of light as Blake's pages
of illumined innocent experience 
I retrieve the voice of the professor 
speaking of Northrup Frye to guide 
our learning about each manuscript with 
bejeweled incantations gleaming their sky
 
 

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