Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Good Book

I know the book
Has me by the eyes
When I cannot put it down

Not to put the trash out
Do the dishes
Grade my papers
Say hello
Or even go to sleep at night

Or if I do
Or must do
These abhorrent things
--Suddenly abhorrent when the other day
I didn't mind at all--
I sigh and bear them
Thinking only of the worlds
I long for
Where each page
Lingers underneath my hair
And quivers there
Vibrating to the shiver of my spine

Yes, I must do the tasks
Assigned to me
But I will do them quickly
Sloppily, if necessary
(Believe me, it is necessary)

For the book
Its depths
Its words
Its roughish pages
Calls.

6 comments:

  1. True... thx goodness my eyes can only take a few hours of reading at a time.

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  2. Now that's a love story!

    Wonderful when that fire burns bright for a novel.

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  3. Housework can wait. And kids can feed themselves.

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  4. Books can own you for that bit of time.

    What can be better?

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  5. The Idiot was the last book that took me like that. Stole every bit of discretion on how to use time well from me.

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  6. Now I know that feeling very well indeed!

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