The Dyer’s Hand

This is a picture of a battered and creased black paperback book cover. The black cover with purple and blue fonts is abraded and scuffed but lovingly so
This is a picture of a battered and creased black paperback book cover. The black cover with purple and blue fonts is abraded and scuffed but lovingly so.

 

I started rereading

W.H. Auden’s essays, The Dyer’s Hand again.

The pages have yellowed,

the spine has become crackly.

Hope it holds together

for one more reading?

Hope is a frail glue.

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