Pages

listing-to-port:

The one with the bent-over corner; with daisies all up one side; the page with an unfamiliar word on that you tried to find again and failed; the sinister page the spine cracked at; that everyone remembers from that one book; that is still uncut; upon which the words sat uncommonly well; the page before the book hit the wall; pages of soft and strokable paper; which smell good; those containing phantasmagorical illustrations; in which a truth is discovered; that are a refuge; the first one that the knife did not reach; upon which you fall asleep; that are salaciously enjoyable; that are missing; upon which someone wrote something and then rubbed it out; that were deliberately left blank; that have blossomed with notes beyond the margins and into the text; that have been dissected and made into jewellery; those that have been used for the passing of messages; which were folded into paper kittens.