With the enormity of holding keys, the anxiety of secret Sunday morning when no one ever comes the first hours
or late Monday when the sleep sets in on the studious and they clear out
that par-lit time the stacks have mass, get weight, hang heavy off a low-watt bulb
dead man- and spunky woman-names show on the spine, or in deep footnotes
stamping the place like a caught lover
me just being the sentry, acting the watch, my bowel holding a cosmos of ghosts, the knot of human mind I don't know my own
my walkabout a rendezvous with a fear that if I lie down I never rise, that there's only my walking then nothing
that the odd ideas smelling of thread and binding glue, they're the only real,
that, and the frontispiece of a dragon folded with a pencil note: my home
Ah, yes, that intoxicating scent. I especially like the line "...deep footnotes stamping the place like a caught lover." Very nice. You knew I would love this piece.
ReplyDeleteTess,
ReplyDeleteI know you a little, which has been quite to my benefit.
You know that I try to write to my reader's ear. Why am I here except to reach out?
Trulyfool
awesome magpie.
ReplyDeleteWelcome join poetry potluck week 37 today,
Share your poetry, enjoy the spotlight.
Bless your MondaY!
XOXOX
Jingle,
ReplyDeleteThanks!
TF