“Bibliophile”
The particular charms of a life well-read.
This poem is best consumed aloud. It was first scrawled in blue longhand from row 20B—the steerage of the skies. I find it intriguing how even the unloveliest seat assignment produces a poetic, airborne alchemy that is difficult to replicate elsewhere. Or, as the kids would say, “It’s a whole vibe.”
What have you been reading lately? Currently I’m up to my gills in Anna Karenina—goodness what drama! What gossip! What insightful aphorisms that still translate across culture nearly 150 years later! I have so many thoughts…
I love it–and hearing of the poem's conception...
Just finished Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, reading The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion and starting The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society...
Love it. Your lines dance and rhyme- and make me want to read a new stack of books! Reminiscent of the poem my -and likely your- students memorized "A Jingle of Words". I'm currently listening to Anna Karenina also (have been over the past year)!! On the go reads are Always in My Heart by Anna Marie Bontrager, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by Comer, and just finished the graphic novel When Stars Are Scattered.