✨ Quiet Study Area #2: Largo Public Library

A thousand whispers...

Quiet Study Area #2: Largo Public Library

These book-thick rafters have housed
a thousand whispers: shelf inquiries
and future hopes risen like moths.

Flitting phantom questions
mingle with day-lit dust motes,
linger and hover until their powdery
beige frames litter windowsills.

Fatigued from attempted escape, they rest,
paper-quiet until a whisk broom of sunshine
sweeps curiosities into particles.

Triangular trusses point wings upward
as hushed word-spirits ignite among beams,
glimmering like gilded pages, like answers
unbound from their spines. They fly.

— John Davis Jr.

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