Between the Pages

from Northern Sketches by Gary Bunting

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Between The Pages

From between the pages of a second hand Thomas Keneally novel
Fell a postcard from Beadnell Bay
A horseshoe curved sandy beach
Golden sunshine on a glorious day
I’ve found many items over the years
In dog eared fiction souvenirs
Parking tickets and train tickets to far away destinations
Contactless receipts for London Underground stations
Flyers for a Japanese art exhibition
Long closed, far away in a Boston museum
Business cards and Lichtenstein art
Love notes and lists of hope
Squashed spiders hidden down in the spine on page eighty nine
A plaster, unused
A stick of gum, chewed
A pressed flower that turned to dust
As I turned the page to chapter two
“I’m rich!” I thought
But Monopoly notes don’t pay the bills
“I’m hungry” I mused
But when an M&M rolled down the spine
And settled into my old Levi’s
I didn’t even want to touch it
Never mind munch on it
I’ve found internal library memos
Condemning ‘American Psycho
Shopping lists and Kawasaki stickers
I’ve found plectrums from guitar pickers
There was a short letter once
From one friend to another
About being positive and rising above it
It ended with the line
And, I’ll always remember
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”
And that’s sage advice for everyone

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from Northern Sketches, released October 22, 2021

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