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little things found in secondhand books

a photograph of a young Jack Russell
with a scruffy black head
and white body,
looking like a plucked chicken.

a birthday message,
handwritten, dated two weeks
before it reached my hands.
(the recipient must not have liked
Southern Gothic short stories.)

a postcard of a Van Gogh scene
(“Wheatfield, with Cypresses”).
that one i keep on my nightstand,
backlit by my reading lamp.

i think about the hands
that placed these little gifts
between the pages of the books.
a woman’s hands,
wrinkled, writing on
the first blank page.
a male hand marking the spot,
with the picture of the dog.
Written by The_Silly_Sibyl (Jack Thomas)
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