Category Archives: haiku

IV.

in yellowed pages

a dried rose and baby’s breath

lover’s memento

~Melanie Thomason

III.

a five dollar bill

how very fortuitous

you bought me this book

~Melanie Thomason

II.

eggs, rice, cinnamon

interesting grocery list

what were they making?

~Melanie Thomason

I’ve come across many interesting book markers over the years.  Of course some are plain, some are in the expected form with a nice quote or pretty picture…but some make me wonder about what exactly was going on in the person’s life who last read the book I’m now holding.  It’s easy to imagine for some…the dried flower, the business card…others are a bit more perplexing the strip of toilet paper, the lock of hair…

I myself have marked a place with whatever is handy…a used envelope, a stick of gum, a paperclip…yet some of the things I found I don’t think people meant to discard.

Anyway I was just think of this and decided to write a few haiku on the subject. Here is #1

unpaid power bill

now reading by candlelight~

books illuminate

~Melanie Thomason