Grand Opening at the Tiny Used Bookstore Down the Street

..
It’s tomorrow,
and we can already smell the pages
and the ages and ages of
yesterday’s stories
in between:

For Mary, Merry Christmas 1956
Lisle, with all my love, George
See page 37. – Farley
Happy Birthday, Darling. 1979

We’ll wonder where those past
readers are now as we open
their spines again and again,
the scent of tree skins in
-toxicating us, leading
our own heartbeats
to the worlds within.

We’ll begin with a smile
and a spark in our eyes,
and we’ll follow their
fingerprints to the end.

..
In November, we poem.