Once again at Books Afloat ...

Once again, I climbed the narrow stairs in Books Afloat -

I'd walked down the pinched street, not far from the choppy sea -

I'd looked at the window menu of King Balti -

I steered clear of the vapers standing outside an edgy pub -

Inside the bookshop, I was thankful for the kindness of foxed volumes -

I took comfort in the look of the owner -

His stooped figure -

His antiquarian's tweed -

I bought a postcard of a 1930s Cunarder -

I gazed out the window at a scrap of sky -


11 June 2019

Books Afloat
Weymouth