the character between the binding

the character between the binding

 

 

 

I am merely an anecdote

a passing story

the end is near

quotation marks enclose

 

I am a group of run-on sentences

collaborating with several conjunctions

who forgot their commas

and then ran off with all the periods.

 

 I am the bearer of description

an adjective looking for an adverb

to join it as a scene is posed

and a theme arose

 

I am merely an anecdote

feeling supposition

from a reader 

who thoughtfully perused me

 

I am a grateful exclamation point

feeling the surrender

of joyful merging

my theme the dream to share

 

I am merely imagination

do you know who I am

are you the mirror's image of me

should we merge

 

into a novel?

a romance or mystery or 

something unedited

characters who think outside the pages

 

allowed to come to life

before they atrophy

into static beings

stuck between capital letters

 

and final punctuation.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

3/17/23

Reviews

[W. Barrett Munn]

If you enjamb your line you won’t end stop; better yet use a semicolon and tie together past and future.

Winston

[jacob erin-cilberto]

now where did I leave that semi-colon?
thank you, Winston,
j.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

I love how you have captured life between the binding, within the words and punctuation. This is beautiful with a slight tinge of sadness, like dog-eared pages stained with tea.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

your review is better than the poem...more poetic.
thank you,
j.

[Lorry]

You should be in parentheses Jacob, which will always be there to hug you. I on the other hand will just be a group of shapes they use when they don't want to print *#@!&* swear words 😊

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Steven Wright says, "if you can't see me, it is because I am in parentheses."
j.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

shapes, shapes, shapes.