04-08-2014, 07:08 PM
Today I bought a pen-knife; I have three more back home.
At this age I want it all; all that I never had,
or had, but want again. The day before, I bought a book;
I know it well, but maybe just because it looks
as though it, too, deserved a second chance,
I took it to my bed last night.
Sleep was near, but thumbing through the dry, frail pages
I breathed in air from years ago. Each sandwiched leaf exhaled
on turning, all the words I used to know; now infrequent visitors
from time’s past paragraph. I forget their names;
such unfamiliarity. I really ought to keep in touch
in this late hour, before I finally succumb.
That pen-knife that I bought today; I put it down somewhere.
I looked for it in all the places lost things seem to go.
The other two are in my box of tools and string and glue;
or were last time I looked, but I don’t recall where every cache
is hidden anymore. At least I have the one I bought today.
Enough. I put out the bedside light. Something falls to the floor.
Whatever it was, it will still be there tomorrow.
tectak
Cringletie House Hotel
2014
At this age I want it all; all that I never had,
or had, but want again. The day before, I bought a book;
I know it well, but maybe just because it looks
as though it, too, deserved a second chance,
I took it to my bed last night.
Sleep was near, but thumbing through the dry, frail pages
I breathed in air from years ago. Each sandwiched leaf exhaled
on turning, all the words I used to know; now infrequent visitors
from time’s past paragraph. I forget their names;
such unfamiliarity. I really ought to keep in touch
in this late hour, before I finally succumb.
That pen-knife that I bought today; I put it down somewhere.
I looked for it in all the places lost things seem to go.
The other two are in my box of tools and string and glue;
or were last time I looked, but I don’t recall where every cache
is hidden anymore. At least I have the one I bought today.
Enough. I put out the bedside light. Something falls to the floor.
Whatever it was, it will still be there tomorrow.
tectak
Cringletie House Hotel
2014