Poetry Is Where You Find It Xi Poem by Frank Avon

books stacked about and scattered around our room

[on the floor]
Thomas and Beulah
Byrne (by Anthony Burgess)
In the Company of Strangers

De Mayor Of Harlem
Belloq's Ophelia
A Chance Meeting

Young Romantics
The Classmates
Wait Till Next Year

Heroes of History
the five people you meet in heaven
But They'll Miss Us When We're Gone

Toponymity: An Atlas of Words
Traveling at Home
Walkin' the Dog

Detroit City Is the Place to Be
I Know Where I'm Going
Rand McNally Road Atlas

Bhagavad Gita: As It Is
The Romance of the Rose
Don Quixote

Boy, Dog, Snow
A Clown at Midnight
Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts

A Year with Hafiz
A Year with C.S. Lewis
Through the Year with Jimmy Carter

Collected Poems of
- Hart Crane
- Wallace Stevens

- Lorine Niedecker
- Dorothy Parker
[listed in ascending order]

A New Literary History of America
From Puritanism to Postmodernism
The Anatomy of Influence

Park Songs
Story Hour
Transformations

Jesus: A Pilgrimage
Excavating Jesus
Rebirth of Wonder

Reviving the Ancient Faith
The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement
Toms River: A story of Science and Salvation

The Bully Pulpit
Team of Rivals
'To the Best of My Ability': The American Presidents

The Supreme Courtship
War in a Time of Peace
The Course of Irish History


[mysteries of Jo Nesbø]

The Bat Cockroaches The Redbreast
Nemesis The Devil's Star The Redeemer
The Snowman The Leopard Phantom Police


[within reach of my Laz-Y-Boy recliner]

my mother's Bible (KJV)
my Goodpasture Bible (ARV)
One-Year Bible (NIV) & (NRSV)
The World Book 2014
Merriam-Wesbster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition)


[and in a niche above, hand-sized]

Daily Strength for Daily Needs [1892]
The Prince of the House of David [even older]
Roberts Rules of Order [1899]
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice [1909]
My Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis [1954]


[special volumes between golden bookends]

The Poetical Works of John Keats [red-leather binding]
The Finer Tone
Selected Poems and Prose of William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience [boxed, w/ designs in color]

American Religious Poetry
Men Who Walked with God
The Tree of Life


[and]

an empty journal