the
         librarian
          shakes
           sand
           out
            of
            my
           over
           due
             b
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Sally Biggar

Sally Biggar lives in the mid-coast region of Maine. Little did she know 30 years ago, when she moved to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, that she would eventually find herself inexorably drawn, like a salmon, back to her birthplace ? to fields ringed with stone walls, a granite coastline, fresh-water lakes and flaming fall foliage. She draws inspiration for her poetry from daily walks with her husband and eavesdropping anywhere, all the time. She began writing haiku in 2010, but now primarily writes tanka, which have appeared most recently in red lights, Eucalypt, Ribbons, GUSTS and Moonbathing.

18 thoughts on “”

  1. Fine, Sally!
    __ Ah, those magic of books with real paper pages, as an older person I see nothing better and your verse fully explains their portable importance. _m

    beach book
    with too many periods
    grains of thought

  2. A whole summer’s worth of memories and doings falling out from between those pages… This is lovely!

  3. This made me smile and keep on smiling. And there's so much back story packed into these few words: lazy reading days on a beach holiday. I could almost smell the suntan oil, feel the sun on my shoulders!

  4. Wonderful!!!

    Ah, used to be plagued by overdue books! So often one year that I raided my various penny bags and would spend two or more minutes feeding the library machine. The librarians hated it, but at least I was putting money back into the libraries which are being rid of by our current governments.

    That was my old local library, and this is from a library in another city:

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    library café–
    we swap lost key stories
    as my coffee cools

    Alan Summers
    Publication credits: Presence 32 (2007); Tinywords (2007); The O’Keefe Brief, O’Keefe Library at SAU, St Ambrose University, Iowa, U.S.A. (2007)

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  5. Ah, used to be plagued by overdue books! So often one year that I raided my various penny bags and would spend two or more minutes feeding the library machine. The librarians hated it, but at least I was putting money back into the libraries which are being rid of by our current governments.

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