Heart and Soul Enter New Chapter
they say you can get lost
in a book
what i want to know is
can you get found?
somewhere in the typeset
among the verbs and nouns
between trope and allusion
consonant, vowel sounds
as the lines break
plummet
fall into the
next
is there a world elsewhere
beyond the bounds of text
while word after word blackens the page
and the universe is filled again
with ideas
old new recycled and obtuse
fiery wild and clever
pithy bold and loose
the motion the momentum
moves you
pushes away other thought
so far you’re suddenly no longer
here
but gone, page turns
you disappear
the story’s moving forward
but can we go back?
© 2009 andrew kooman
