Library

Poetry

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Library

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If there’s any place I will die

It will be in a library

My heart will stop beating

In rhythm with the pages turning

My breath flickering like a candle burning

I’ll haunt every last shelf and every last book

I’ll hide my ashes in every cranny and nook

They will say she sat over there in the corner every day

And I still do, the pillows behind the back beginning to fray

I may be dead but in the library I’m never more alive

The saddest little way anyone could thrive.

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Violet Binczewski is a sophomore at Mount Saint Joseph Academy. She is a published author, with her book “The Ocean and Her Shadows” being released in early 2024. She has also had her work featured in Moonstone Arts Center’s New Voices Anthology 2024 publication, The Elysian exhibit at the Eclipse Center in Lansdale, as well as the Philadelphia Stories Junior 2024 showcase.

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