ONE SHELF OF MANY
a book about murdering
a book of lies
a book in which the faces of a history are turned
from you walking quickly down a side street and
away from the disastrous confrontation with
your eyes
a book for the dead to become birds become fish for
them to stand inside their ribs and look out
a book of children
a book under a book
there are books that have a face and others that
have legs to run from you
at night you place a book next to you and then close
your eyes
a book of glass that you see through
a book of beautiful men and their awkwardness
a book that tells you not to sleep
a book lost and then rewritten in the form of memory
that is of a crumbling wall
this book, that wants to be seen