Monday, March 15, 2010

Dear Reader


Painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard


Dear Reader


Baudelaire considers you his brother, and
Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs
as if to make sure you have not closed the book,
and now I am summoning you up again, attentive
ghost, dark silent figure standing in the
doorway of these words.

Billy Collins

Posted over on Poemhunter

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