Participation

There are no trophies
to endear shelves
filled with unread books. 

One hook bedevils 
overwrought fragile language
and simplifies the difficult line:

a fish
according one wish
to the leaf's maple syrup.

Water and a harsh bark
fragment, ambulate, conspire
to dwell as prepositions

along
the sidewalk's
furtive cracks. 

Bring your shelf.
Read it.
Remember

there is no escape
by word 
or deed

only continuity
and sharing
by participation.