When I am near the end of a book
I have to sleep in the same room with it.
All the hours I have spent tucked
inside its rib cage have formed
a bond I am not ready to release.
It has been manna for my imagination,
peace in waves of irrational,
my nightlight in insomnia.
Once the last word is read it will
find its place on a bookshelf,
a separate planet in a universe of spines.
"When I am near the end of a book
I have to sleep in the same room with it."
Joan Didion
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All the hours I have spent tucked
inside its rib cage have formed
a bond I am not ready to release.
I can completely relate to this point.. once we hold an exciting book in our palms... our soul wont rest until its pages are embedded into our mind..!!
Love,
Sanaa
thanks for dropping in to read mine
much love...
It has a flavor of a love affair cooled off. Sleeping to cooling and on the shelf runs the gamut.
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I hope Didion reads some that you guys wrote, she should love them too.
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