Taper

The weight of a book will change the longer you hold it. The ink can morph--after all, it is a liquid that chooses to secure itself, to take hold of what was also once liquid, moist pulp pressed and dried. Paper. Cyprerus papyrus. What is permanency? If even pages can be deinked with the right chemical, returned to its natural, unmarred state. Erased. Reborn. Bleached to create that perfect virgin-white. Are there words behind these words? Forgotten and removed? If you think of all the things that can be buried, you might just learn you don't know anything at all. You sit by the fire, dog-earing and un-dog-earing each and every page until you can't tell where you are and where you've been.