The Bible They Wrote that No One Has Read

Long after the Serpent had transmogrified

into something that looked like a man – but not

yet what he would conceive on his ride to

the Devil we know would be damned – he was

yellowish, brown-haired, and bore piercing eyes,

and otherwise seemed far less evil than wise. 

Long after Adam lost interest in Eve, by the time

she’d become a thrice-over grandmother,

he wandered off daily to murmur the yearnings

he’d long since accepted would never be heard.

While Adam pined after one thing or another,

Eve found her companionship elsewhere.

The damned simulacrum of man-not-yet-devil

had caused Eve to dream and believe again.

It’s not that they talked; no, they walked and they

paused and they walked and they paused,

and between them arrived at the conscious

awareness that each was the other’s deliverance.

It was love mixed with reverence: quite like

the solemn gestalt of a Protestant church which

of course wouldn’t lurch into being for eons.

Eve called him Leon; he took her in hand

and she took him to bed and the rest you can find

in the Bible they wrote but that no one has read.

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