THE BOOK LADY

Poem by Nolo Segundo

She travels with grace through the caverns of books,

searching for the neglected, the forgotten, the abandoned,

then slowly, sadly, she pulls them off the shelves and

places them in the box of fate, destined now either for

adoption or a re-incarnation in some lesser form--

perhaps as paper bags or toilet paper-- what once had

been thoughts and poems and even magical words....