Because we all want to write more poems.
Bricks
What do the bricks know
After years and years
Of authors’ book talks
Biographies and poetry
Novels and memoirs
Writer’s words and voices
Offer solace perhaps
For bricks’ foundational work
Holding up the roof beams
Keeping out wind and rain
As the sound of books
Disappears in the night
- Clayton Medeiros's Shared Poems
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Neil McKay
June 24, 2012
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At first I thought this was a
At first I thought this was a, for lack of a better word, snide question, like what do the bricks know? They just sit there and hold up the building. Books know so much more.
Then I realized you were asking what have they learned. I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes.