State Secrets.(Poem)

 
STATE SECRETS 
 
   The imagery was true. When Eve 
   Reached with her literate fingers for the fruit, 
   To see was both to know and to believe, 
   And the ripe pome she plucked to feed 
   Their dual hunger was an absolute 
   Encyclopedia that she could read. 
 
   Spoor, berries, wind and stars were code 
   That everything was in, and everything, 
   Deciphered by the light in which it glowed, 
   Prompted the names that Adam chose 
   Even before he shaped his lips to sing. 
   Singing the rose's name, he sang the rose. 
 
   And when the high priests came to rid 
   The eyes of day of such omniscience, 
   And sealed it up in the Great Pyramid, 
   The secret on a temple wall, 
   It was an open secret and the sense 
   They were withdrawing was the sense of all. 
 
   Even Erasmus, cloistered from 
   The rank and scarcely lettered streets to pore 
   Upon some learned incunabulum, 
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