“Some Words for the Week”
A library is a forest
cut into pieces
something once living
killed and rearranged
and imbued with
a new sort of life
in the form of
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“Some Words for the Week”
A library is a forest
cut into pieces
something once living
killed and rearranged
and imbued with
a new sort of life
in the form of words
stories lies poems prayers
stained onto
tree leaves leaves of paper
so different
made of the same
stand amidst books or pines
and find there
a similar sacred silence
Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He has two published books and one more forthcoming in the Fall of 2022. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com
