On Loving an Academic

by

Melissa Patton

 

 

you put me on a bowing shelf with your Kafka and foucault.
you thumbEd through dusty pages, content to neVer know
the beauty withIn the shabby spiNe.

 

 

Melissa Patton is a graduate of the English Department of the University of Texas at Arlington, and is employed at Cedar Valley College.

 

 

 

 

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