Where I Read

Amazing author and extraordinary speaker Laurie Halse Anderson has challenged her readers to write 15 minutes a day for the entirety of August. Not sure if I'll actually accomplish it, but I intend to try, and post the results here.

A series of mostly free verse poems about where I read, done for a project at work:

Most books during childhood:

Very late at night

Under covers

Just one more chapter

Hoping I don't get caught.

Wrinkle in Time:

Old plaid chair

In a corner,

In my room.

Sort of smelly,

But all mine. 

Covered in a blanket, 

While my mother vacuums

Outside my door.

Order of the Phoenix:

Reading in a bed-nest

Surrounded by down on all sides

With water and chocolate close at hand

Preferably rainy

Preferably cold

Preferably mid-morning

Half Blood Prince:

On a burning summer day

Wilting with heat

Sneaking Harry Potter

While Dan falls asleep

Deathly Hallows:

A bit out loud,

A bit on the subway,

The rest in an air-conditioned cocoon

With rainbow cookies

   

Now:

I read on the subway.

Wait, was that my stop?