Book
         Fire
                Quiet room.
Time for
        Deeper
               Thoughts to bloom.
Not quick
       Moments
              Snatched from an hour,
But long
       Delicious
             Big book power.
Something
       S o f t
             To hold the head.
Phone
      Turned off
             No calls to heed.
A gift
       Of time
             To sit and READ.

Cerita M. Hewett
About 1998