POETS IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE Yermiyahu Ahron Taub   J. EDGAR SONG Take me to the water not the one surging into infinite with its missions and imperative but to the one hushed and brackish where no one dares to picnic or swim Take me to the water there I will smooth away the contortions dispel the heels clicking down the corridor contingents from afar insisting on the one true way perspiration beginning to form Take me to the water there I will flee he with the files and folders accusations so tidy so pointed names and images on the verge of display the contents of these many years reduced to a box on the floor Take me to the water there I will disrobe in the circle of witness of those who too used to slink and shiver and now will enfold me the pine needles will brush my nipples the night sun will not retreat as the wet darkness rises in greeting       Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is the author of three volumes of poetry, Uncle Feygele (Plain View Press, 2011), What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn (Parlor Press, 2008; Free Verse Editions series), and The Insatiable Psalm (Wind River Press, 2005). He is a senior librarian in the Israel and Judaica Section of the Library of Congress. His website: http://www.yataub.net.   Published in Volume 13, Number 3, Summer 2012.   To read more by this author: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub: Mapping the City Yermiyahu Ahron Taub