OLD BOOKSHOPS


Railway bookshop Alnwick,
the bookseller knows all the writers
and titles -
Try the Instrumentalist or The White Hotel
Hay-on-Wye,
Pages may yellow but books have longevity,
in the secondhand bookstore;
A first-edition is worth its weight in gold.

Shakespeare and the Bible
The complete lyrics of Ira Gershwin,
A good book can make a mint
and will never be out of print;
Coins of the imaginative realm,
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings,
bestsellers that fly boldly off the shelves,

Old friends, stop and browse a while
in eternity.