Sunday, February 20, 2022

sitting on the floor


stepping through the doorway
a sense of excitement, adventure,
entering a world of wonders
mysteries, history to be told.
 
descending the stairs
into the lower level
the children’s room
of the Westfield Athenaeum.
 
sitting on the floor
reading the adventures,
the biographies, the histories,
the mysteries of them.
 
gathering up the books
checking them out from the library
carrying them in my hands
taking them outside
bleeding them within me.
 
the stories, the adventures,
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn,
John Paul Jones, Davy Crockett,
all of the others
who are with me still.
 
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edited February 20, 2022

sitting on the floor

 

edited/new February 3, 2022

entering a world of wonders

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/entering-world-of-wonder.html

edited February 3, 2022

Descending the stairs – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/descending-stairs-v2.html

February 2, 2022

Descending the stairs

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/descending-stairs.html

discovering the world of books

as a child in Westfield, MA

Westfield Athenaeum

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