Posted in the Annals of Dusty Shelves and Forgotten; A Writer’s Bookshelf

by Fred Aiken

nestled amidst the hush

an obsolescent nook, repose a miscellany of careless reminders

parchment is beset with an aureate hue, a testament to the unrelenting march of invisible boots

bound tomes, safeguarded chronicles, untold and uncharted and unseen

a yearning to be unsealed, to be pored over and revitalized, persists as an ephemeral murmur, echoing the hope that one day they shall be emancipated from their forlorn stupor