Off The Shelf

Off The Shelf

sometimes i like to traipse about

second hand book stores

and sunny market stalls

hopes of picking out

some old forgotten gem

all dog-eared and darkened

still yet to peruse

or to replace favourite reads

passed out

to new excited friends

over late nights of wine, music

and smoky discourse

carefully selected

but rarely returned……

and at times  

upon the inside page

i come across

hand written messages of new loves

hopes and dreams……..

and i wonder….

how they wound up here?

love’s time all done

and dusted down

and could there be

in some old cobbled store

Nabokov Camus Hamson

naive inscriptions

i may have even penned myself?

and wonder how and why

they wound up here

up on the shelf?