Night Reading written by Joyce Butler at Spillwords.com

Night Reading

Night Reading

written by: Joyce Butler

@joycebwriter

 

I read them all
every one.
All night
sitting up
underneath
my little oil lamp
I had no use
for natural light

When morning
broke the shadows,
my flickering pages
ceased to fall
disappearing
with my oil lamp
Like the last
rhyming word
I’d read.

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