I Was Just Reading A Beautiful Book of Poetry - Lilith Rogers

[Larry Robinson]

I Was Just Reading A Beautiful Book of Poetry

and I glanced down 
at my hand holding that book
and my hand—
it had to have been my hand
because I was the only one there
and I was the one holding the book--
my hand was all ripply
with wrinkles.

Not just a few wrinkles—
dozens, hundreds of wrinkles
more wrinkles than one would imagine
could even fit on a hand
and not even a whole hand
no, just the space between wrist
and thumb that was holding the book
of poems in my hand
the beautiful book of beautiful poems
by Fran Claggett
the beautiful wrinkled old poet
on the cover.

	- Lilith Rogers