#17

Albert E. Marth from Cora and Will Wood

I love old books 
because they have so much character--
because I wonder
who else held them in his hands,
read the words, 
contemplated them,
 planted them into 
his heart, as words to live by,
absorbed the words into his mind, 
the synapses connecting the meaning
of words.

catherinenglish 01-17-2013