5.24 (dj) Reading Between the Lines / MLMM, haikai 34/MAY 24, 2018 ~ JULES

#Haiku #1 (5/25/18): Jules latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

Reading Between the Lines

The only thing that you absolutely have to know,

is the location of the library. –Albert Einstein

While it is actually about a three mile round trip to get to my local

library it wasn’t always so. Now quite frequently I go to the cafe

bookstore for myself as well as gifts. I might spend a ten spot or

less every time – and always feel like I’ve walked out with treasures.

I can add to my own library (I’ve seven bookcases between my living

and dining rooms – that doesn’t count the ones in the bedrooms,

or the one downstairs that is primarily for children.

just stepping outside

dawn and dusk are the covers;

natures’ library

And then there is the very personal library of my heart. About fifty

years worth of personal writing. Mostly poetry a very strong portion

dedicated to the seasons – nature as it passes before my eyes.

The everyday pages starting out crisp and blank then filling by

days end with sentences, paragraphs and chapters of my own

making – some biographical.

sixty decades here,

I recognize spring passing –

autumn closes in

Summer hasn’t yet arrived and winters’ memory now fading. But

I think of how I have seen the winter of my elders’ lives and how

mine could be… Their lives like libraries, holding tomes of memories.

Most unwritten. My life flashes of fiction, drams of poetry all containing

bits of my soul.

every season leads

to another section of

life’s vast library