15 books meme

[malsperanza]

1.
Among twenty romance novels,
The only moving thing
Was the scene where he says he's sorry.

2.
I was of three minds,
Like a bookstore
In which there are three self-help sections.

3.
The manuscript whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the problem.

4.
A reader and a book
Are one.
A reader and a book and an author
Are one.

5.
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of first editions
Or the beauty of used paperbacks,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

6.
Articles filled the long sentence
With a touch of class.
The shadow of the pencil
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the sentence
An indecipherable clause.

7.
O thin books of Poetry,
Why do you imagine golden rhymes?
Do you not see how the syllables
Fall neatly into feet
Of iambic pentameter?

8.
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That an editor is involved
In what I know.

9.
When the novel flew across the room,
It marked the end
Of one more wasted evening.

10.
At the sight of volumes
Bound in tooled half-morocco,
Even the lust for stories
Is briefly silenced.

11.
He rode over Connecticut
In a new Lexus.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The voice on NPR
For Updike.

12.
The episode is moving.
The novel must be ending.


13.
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
I stayed home
With a good book.

14.
In the war for wallspace
The bookshelves have beaten the artworks.

15.
It wasn't fiction,
Because it had footnotes
And an annotated bibliography.
And it had its longueurs,
But when I finished it,
I started it again.

Comments

[larryhammer]

Hee!

I especially like 12.

---L.