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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4523 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention The Reason I Have Credit Gary Blankenship The Reason I Have Credit a sidewalk more crack than slab an entry more exit than welcome door wrapped doorknob loose glass cracked enter as small bell tinkles (was the cat finally belled?) wood floor well swept ancient cases stocked and locked boxes stacked in corners overflow dry air scented with hints of cinnamon ink and parchment mystery adventure fun creative sweat and pain faded labels written when fountain pens were common aisles as narrow as a critic’s eyes shelves as tall as a champion’s reach where is history, mathematics, fairy tales? will biography be found next to essays or fiction? is haiku stored with “Far East” or poetry? a small stack carried from category to category grows till some stored by the register some reshelved others revisited until the door reopened bell retinkled I reappear with a full plastic bag eleven volumes not yet worried about when there will be time to read them |
