A Feast for a Bibliophile

What to read next?

A tome that elevates my mind

A memoir that bares the writer’s soul

Perhaps a mystery, but not a cozy

where decorum holds court,

and not a narrative constructed

out of nightmares 

nor a history of a war 

where historians dissect causes,

and display their historiographic mettle

Or shall I reread the classics

or the latest literary fiction

reviewed in the Sunday Times

Or a volume of poetry

where every word must carry its weight

and endings earned

Or a book shepherding souls

through the shoals of life