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A native of Phoenix, AZ, Katie Cappello currently lives and works in a small farming town in Northern California.
The Library
A body bound in sweaty leather.
The Dinesen, the Wouk,
the set of Shakespeare hand-sewn,
sinew harvested from the body.
Each word, a cell from the body.
Each body hollow, a façade
gilt-lettered, marble-boarded.
A secret note of love or rage
hidden between pages 11 and 12.
Its body, bent and stressed,
a field of black harvest, white land.
You, reader, have read this all before.
Don’t worry. The culprit
is not so easily caught, and herrings
red and otherwise abound.
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