You can organize

and categorise your books

just how you want them, neat,

coordinated, by publication date,

by alphabetical treaty

and genre specific,

detailed, arranged with love

like a marriage that was not seen coming,

and yet

somehow

in all the tidying and methodical embrace

of putting the books in a system, upon

shelves and shelves and make shift piles

that befits that page turned embrace and declaration

of stand back and admire your handy-work and dedication

you

still find

one piece

of writing

haphazardly

out of place.

Ian D. Hall 2017