"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Snapshot Saturday, July 29

This week I dropped by the public library to pick up a book I had placed on hold. In addition to that book I walked out with four poetry books. Now that I am retired I will have to mine the public library shelves for new and fun poetry volumes more often.


BookSpeak! Poems About Books by Laura Purdie Sala
The Ordering of Love: New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver


Passing the Unworked Field

Queen Anne's Lace
is hardly
prized but
all the same it isn't
idle look
how it
stands straight on its
thin stems how it
scrubs its white faces
with the
rags of the sun how it
makes all the
loveliness
it can.

Mary Oliver, Swan



Snapshot Saturday is hosted by West Metro Mommy.