My poem, Bibliosmia, is in the current issue of PA”s Poetic Voices. Here is the poem:

BIBLIOSMIA

That groggy Monday
morning
I headed downstairs to my library

to check a passage
from The Good Soldier
I had dreamt

of that night.
Halfway down
I remembered

my library had been
dismantled
and carried away

in custom cardboard cartons,
courtesy of U-Haul.
In the library

there was nothing
but empty shelves,
dust defining

the line of books missing
from a lifetime
of collecting.

Does anything say aged
as effectively as downsizing?
And yet, the scent

of library stayed—
that musty smell of old books.
I sat and closed my eyes.