Poetry
Stacks
Piles
Dusty
Curved pages
Muddy and dropped
Soiled
Pristine
Pure
Masterpieces
Love poems
A Eulogy
Fantasy seeker
Science fiction
Keeper of invention.
The park bench with the book left in the rain
Unfinished drama
Bookmark stuck to the page
Soaked on page
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Regret
Remorse
Care
Core
Burrow
Brow
The spine broken
The bed frame splits
The hair flipped
The epilogue rocking
The prologue sun drenched
The train platform
The bedside table with an epitome of dust
A garage filled with trapped sentences
Cardboard prisons
Empathy in ink
Typewriters seizing
Tears without reason
Parts of parts
Root of wood
Shift of tides
Quell and quill
And a birds plummet
In the whirl of a world
Finger turning a page
Touching the spine to the small part
Of the nude body
empirical
Evidence
Of a place beyond the shelf
Books are your unrequited lovers
Romance in dreams
While you sleep.
Francis A Willey
December 24 2021
11:57AM