{"id":4780,"date":"2026-09-12T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/food4thoughtfoundation.org\/journal\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:06:42","slug":"things-i-keep-between-pages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food4thoughtfoundation.org\/journal\/things-i-keep-between-pages-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THINGS I KEEP BETWEEN PAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE POETRY LAB<\/strong><\/p>\n

THINGS I KEEP BETWEEN PAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

I keep a feather
\nbetween pages twenty-two and twenty-three,<\/p>\n

not because it is rare,<\/p>\n

but because I found it
\non the afternoon
\nI finally stopped being angry.<\/p>\n

I keep a train ticket
\ninside an atlas,<\/p>\n

although the train travelled
\nnowhere near the countries
\non those maps.<\/p>\n

I keep a dried yellow flower
\ninside a book about stars,<\/p>\n

because memory
\nhas never cared much
\nfor correct categories.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I open an old book
\nand something falls out:<\/p>\n

a note,
\na leaf,
\na name
\nwritten in handwriting
\nI almost recognise.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that is why
\nbooks grow heavier with time.<\/p>\n

Not because of their pages,<\/p>\n

but because we quietly place
\nour lives inside them.<\/p>\n

And years later,<\/p>\n

when we think
\nwe are only returning
\nto a story,<\/p>\n

the story opens us instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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