At Williston Memorial Library, Mount Holyoke College {South Hadley, Mass.}
“The chapter ends. And when I look up
from a sunken pose in an easy chair
(half, or more than half, asleep?)
the height and heft of the room come back;
darkly, the pitched ceiling falls
forward like a book.
Even those mock-Tudor stripes
have come to seem like unread lines.
Oh, what I haven’t read!’’
From “Reading Room,’’ by Mary Jo Salter
