Monday, March 23
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Just looking at them
I grow greedy, as if they were
freshly baked loaves
waiting on their shelves
to be broken open - that one
and that - and I make my choice
in a mood of exalted luck,
browsing among them
like a cow in sweetest pasture.
For life is continuous
as long as they wait
to be read - these inked paths
opening into the future, page
after page, every book
its own receding horizon.
And I hold them, one in each hand,
a curious ballast weighting me
here to the earth.
- Linda Pastan
The Bookstall
Carnival Evening
a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the horizon of shimmering deserts."
- Vladimir Nabokov
