Moving the Bookstore, Part Two

Someone mentioned the Tower
of Babel. Someone
Borges’ library. The books mumbled
and clucked as we
swaddled them. We were reassuring.
We were gentle. Someone
mentioned Alexandria. Late in the
day birds gathered outside
our doors. The sky grew dark. Some-
one said how still it all
seemed, how hauntingly quiet, the
boxes lightly sealed.

copyright 2007 Corey Mesler
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