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Being There  (between the covers)

Oh, the places you’ll go–
the odyssey
through the looking glass,
the voyage out
to the lighthouse–

Everything is illuminated,
darkness visible–
the red and the black,
the wind in the willows,
the shining
leaves of grass,

Goodnight moon.
Far from the madding crowd,
the sun also rises,
pale fire.

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Okay, I’m not sure what it means either, but here is a “spine poem,” written for Samuel Peralta’s prompt on dVerse Poets Pub.  It also happens to be exactly 55 words.  So go tell the G-Man!

For those who may not know, a spine poem is poem “found” in the titles of books.  There should be a photo of all the books. I’ve been traveling tonight and had to come up with books that I know I own in one form or another.  I just could not get a photograph of spines together. (And I’m sorry this pic also doesn’t really suit the poem!  Tired!)

  The titles in the order of appearance are by Jerzy Kosinski, Dr. Seuss, Homer, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Safran Foer, William Styron, Stendhal, Kenneth Grahame, Stephen King, Walt Whitman, Margaret Wise Brown, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway and Vladimir Nabokov.

I am still very uncertain of the poem’s title–if not the books’ titles–I may change when not trying to fit into 55 words.  (Hint hint Galen!)   Actually –I’ve edited this since posting. I meant “between” the covers, but put “under the covers!”