Adam &Eve in the AtticAuthor(s): William FordSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter, 1995), p. 155Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20153645 .

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Adam & Eve in the Attic William Ford

When the light switch fails

Our eyes fall down in the dark

And both of us stumble

And we learn on our knees

The Torah of attics,

That everything labors

To return to the threads

And pulps of themselves

No matter how much is left

Dumbly on the floor,

The air a blue-black bruise

Scented with dried apple.

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