What Remains: the COVID Checkouts

[mrissa]

Give and take is the way of the library
Now a breath held, a moment frozen,
And I remain with this: mosquitos,
Bulgaria, the poems of Jane Kenyon.
An awkward freeze-frame, mid-conversation,
Not the self-portrait I'd have chosen.
But here we are together, mosquitos.
It's you and me now, Jane.
We're gonna do this together, Bulgaria.
Last week I could dip into fancy,
Ponder another in a series,
Reject what didn't suit, on a whim;
Now you share my distance, Bulgaria,
Jane--even you, mosquitos.
I clutch your binding close and wonder
What I'll have learned by your pages' end.

Comments

[aamcnamara]

yeah

[elisem]

*nod*

[gwynnega]

A wonderful poem about this unwonderful situation.

[mrissa]

Thanks

[rezendi]

That's both lovely and funny.

[mrissa]

Thank you.

[tarasacon]

Nice.

I ended up with assorted kids books and speculative fiction still at home, with 3 new requests that had just been transferred to my branch awaiting pickup.

What’s the book on mosquitoes?

[mrissa]

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

[tarasacon]

Thank you! My library has it I might add it to my tbr pile when I’ve whittled the pile down a bit more.

[mrissa]

I don't actually know if it's good yet! It could be a stinker for all I know. We'll find out!

[tarasacon]

Then I await your review! :)

While my library still has ebooks available during their shutdown, I’m hoping the limits help me get around to reading some books I own that I haven’t yet read even though I Keep Meaning To Do So.

I also just realized that one of my “don’t return until we open again” books is a cookbook. I now have more time to try some of the recipes rather than trying to decide whether or not to make copies of some of them. Incentive!

[mrissa]

My library changed its ebook service so that it doesn't work on my ebook reader. I could still read on my phone or my computer, but that's far less comfortable. So I'm much more likely to get through some reading projects in other directions.

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray! You've captured something that I think people will remember in 50 years!

[mrissa]

Thank you.