Literary relishing

|Giving in to grateful secrets| 02|26|2014

This morning
I delved back into a
reluctant passion w/
particular pages,
in a certain book I love,
& have studied for 
many years
& treat as a dear friend

pressing my face into its body,
judgment was not made
for stopping & taking the opportunity
to run its print & paper
across my cheeks, brow & lips

as well
to inhale deeply w/
each turn, to trace the shifts
in scent from certain mark points
& sections I’ve memorized

in it
is carried
scent memories
from many places
we have been physically,
not to mention
the recollection of
where the book itself has taken me

& how
I am forever grateful for
the lessons it has brought forward
& taught me.