Monday, September 14, 2009

Those Eyes

Look at the books they're reading from.
Some tattered from fingers plying through their pages like hungry souls,
Searching again and again for themselves.
Page markers jump out all over.
Bent in memory of a landscape powerfully glimpsed.
This silent map of a territory whose limits can never be known
Yet its contours felt precisely
As words release the magic beast that dwells just on the other side of
Those eyes.