Snow

The Washington Post Book World,
The Boston Globe and the San Jose Mercury
all hail Snow as “one of the best books of the year”.
I plow through another 6 page chapter with difficulty,
happy to put it aside and read Electrostatics,
More magazine, Le Cle dans La Porte or
any other close-by object with print on it.
A toothpaste box qualifies.
“A major work….immense relevance”
I dread putting it aside,
not wanting to reveal that my sophistication
is less than it should be for a woman
“of my education” , Karen is sure to mock me.
I put these thoughts aside and fall into
that luxurious state of dreaming, of
spinning my own tales of
“deep personal meaning”.