The First Book

Open it.

 

Go ahead, it won’t bite.

Well…maybe a little.

 

More a nip, like. A tingle.

It’s pleasurable, really.

 

You see, it keeps on opening.

You may fall in.

 

Sure, it’s hard to get started;

remember learning to use

 

knife and fork? Dig in:

you’ll never reach bottom.

 

It’s not like it’s the end of the world –

just the world as you think

 

you know it.

 

Rita Dove, 318class710.blogspot.com