My Treasure
by cricketjeff on June 1, 2016. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
In Hay on Wye
almost in Wales.
I once wasted two perfect days
of undiluted delight.
searching for something
that nobody
would ever
need to read.
In the fifth dingy shop
I found it.
At the end of a shelf
hidden behind Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson,”
a slim volume,
anonymous beige
text faded
the meaning lost
Seven pages from the end
a line drawing
showing the cylinder block
of a steam locomotive
that nobody ever built.
Author notes
There are more miles of second had books in Hay-on-Wye than in any other town
on Earth, go there!
77 words, but I’m not sure it is free verse, or indeed any sort of verse at
all.
English