Page Turners - a Poem
Heidi
Pippi Longstocking
Little Women
all the Nancy Drews.
Wondering what it must be like
to live alone,
to be old,
to find out why.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tale of Two Cities
Canterbury Tales
Friday night football games.
Making out in the driveway.
Learning secrets.
The Best and the Brightest
All the President's Men
On War
The Boys on the Bus
Having keys of my own.
Eating peanut butter sandwiches for lunch
- and dinner.
Learning checks bounce.
Ken Follet's
Two of Susan Isaccs' twelve; still waiting for more of the same
Nelson DeMille's
Only the first Nicholas Sparks'
and Vince Flynn's . . . too late.
Finally reading for fun again.
1984 seeming a long ways away.
2 a.m. feedings.
And the words kept me company.
