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Library Guardians by Gail Kathleen Jardine

I would have returned
my books—
I don’t like fines—
but the cats
living
in the book drops
smell my fear.

Photo by Krysten Merriman from Pexels

Author

Gail Kathleen Jardine

Gail Kathleen Jardine practices mathematics and music near water and woods. Her work also appears in Sylvia Magazine and Quatrain.Fish.