The Library

Some of my Facebook and Pinterest friends may have surmised from my many postings that I'm cleaning out very old files this week. 

Just as some of my teacher and librarian friends ready their rooms for a new school year, I suppose I'm organizing my office for a new writing project.

I found this gem, from one of my students, upon my leaving a treasured library career after a whole lot of years.

 The note on the back says 

"From Suryea, 2nd grade- I don't know exactly what it means but it's about the library."

Here's the entire poem, in case you can't read the fabulously illustrated copy from Suryea.

library
No need even
To take out
A book: only
Go inside
And savor
The heady
Dry breath of
Ink and paper,
Or stand and
Listen to the
Silent twitter
Of a billion
Tiny busy
Black words.

From All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994)