I love creating found poetry from book titles — it’s my favorite thing about working in the library. But catalogs can also be a source of found poetry, so that’s where I turned for today’s poem.
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Day 17, LexPoMo 2020
Posted in Poetry
Tagged book catalogs, book titles, found poetry, Lexington Poetry Month, LexPoMo
Found poetry for Ash Wednesday
Book catalog benediction
In the church of marbles,
every note is played. Every day
is for the thief, the beggar, the disenchanted
princess. Soup is served with sweet
little lies and lavender eye pillows embroidered
by owls who are good at keeping secrets.
Prayers for hard times rise up from 111 places
that you must not miss, sung
by the lady in the collar and the ghost armies
of every war, lest we forget. There is one pan
for the whole family, a promise given
in the lullabies of the world. Something beautiful
happened growing up in other
people’s houses like surprise heirloom carrots:
we found empathy and wonder and the courage
to become the good neighbor.
A little riff on book titles (some of them misread) from the catalogs that pile up on my breakfast table.
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