All that I read
is not my story
piled under pieces
of furniture I’ve
collected books from
other people’s bookshelves like
the air delivers dust and in my
home it gathers in the form of
blocks of prose
behind my reading chair
under the wardrobe
jammed against the wall
between the kitchen and the bathroom
just in case I might pause
midway for some literature.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: All That I Read, Books, Lamento, Persephone Abbott, Poem, Reading