Poem-A-Day

The Bookstore I’d Run*

by Charles Rossiter

Stuffed with used books

categorized reasonably

but idiosyncratically

to reflect my interests,

fragrant with that familiar

old book smell,

located on a back road,

and only open a few days a week--

not so much business

that it gets in the way

of my reading.

* previously published in Verse-Virtual

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Charles Rossiter, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient, has been featured on NPR, and the Chicago Blues Festival. He has traveled the U.S. as 1/3 of 3 Guys from Albany, performance poetry group, and now lives and writes in Bennington, VT. His latest book, For Now, is just out from Foothills Publishing.