Quesitons on Eating poetry by mark strand?

[stephaniejay]

Eating Poetry

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.
Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.
She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.
I am a new man,
I snarl at her and bark,
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.

Anyone have any idea of the poem-were the dogs good or bad and why? How is bookish dark a pun? Why does the librarian scream? Why are her eyes sad? Why is there an emphasis on librarian's "hands"? Why does the dog snarl at her and bark? What is the whole dogs in the basement coming up business?