A THICK BOOK
for Carol DeCanio
The way you talk about books: chapter heads,
covers, colophons -- taken-care!
And the smell of a book, the feel of its paper,
the heft of the thing...and of course the fonts
(plus the note in the back about the fonts)
and the plot, metaphors — all those words!
I tell you it beats praising nightingales,
it’s almost as fine as cheering mail
to hear the way you go on about
“a thick book — with pages in it!”
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