The Libraries Didn’t Burn. By Elaine Equi.
Despite books kindled in electronic flames.
The locket of bookish love
still opens and shuts.
But its words have migrated
to a luminous elsewhere.
Neither completely oral nor written —
a somewhere in between.
Then will oak, willow,
birch, and olive poets return
to their digital tribes —
trees wander back to the forest?
Equi, Elaine. “The Libraries Didn’t Burn.” The Libraries Didn’t Burn- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More<. Poets.org, 2011. Web.
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