Such a Delicate Hair

Freeverse

A hair about a centimetre long!

Was it an eyelash

or a tiny piece of nasal ornamentation

in this library book?

 

Was it left here by the last borrower?

Or has she - or he -

found it, known it was from

the previous borrower, and ignored it?

 

How long could eyelash

or nasal hair

remain here on page sixty-five

almost defying its removal?

 

Or will a librarian happen across this souvenir,

blow it away

before returning the book

to its place on the shelf?

 

 

(2 Oct 2023)

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Oh surely, it must be an eye lash and it must have had mascara on it. What an original poem. Loved it.

Chris

[Andrew John]

Ah, the other commenter talks of an eyelash, too. Thanks for your comment.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and the librarian would probably blow it away, just being annoyed and not wondering from whom or what it came from.
I would like to think it was an eyelash from a really intent reader.
j.

[Andrew John]

Ah, the other commenter talks of an eyelash, too. Thanks for your comment.