Periodicals

ADSpencer
Stray black

cricket on every-color-under-sun

(looks like mud) carpet, making no

noise. Hooded hunchbacks smuggle

plastic coffee mugs beneath modern

cloaks and hide in wooden cubical

fortresses, deep within the rainbow

forest of periodicals, reading a new

translation of The Dead Sea


Scrolls: "Not just for scholars

anymore." Keep the text boring-

they text on illegally non-silenced

electronic devices-interesting

books might cause you

to say . . . "NO TALKING!"

Published by ADSpencer

AD Spencer is a working writer living in Alabama. Her speculative short fiction is due to appear in anthologies by Pill Hill Press, Horror Bound Magazine, Whortleberry Press, The Library of the Living Dead...  View profile

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  • Jolene Munoz10/19/2009

    Great poem!

  • Kristie Leong M.D.10/18/2009

    This really appeals to me. I love libraries and the periodical section particularly. Awesome work. :-)

  • Wayne Thomas10/8/2009

    far from normal like the periodicals themselves

  • L.L. Woodard8/14/2008

    Anyone who's spent any time in the periodical section of the library can identify with this. Nicely done.

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