Reblogged from SageDoyle:

"Books" was written in response to a prompt by @pattijcrow http://iriswoodbury.wordpress.com/ 

She said, "write a poem about an old wrinkled man, faced with the love of his youth, and how his heart pounds as strongly as ever yet his wrinkles inhibit his expression."  At first I thought the prompt didn't give me enough freedom to go off on my own.  But I loved the visual of the old man, and he quickly took shape in my mind. 

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