Wonder is written allover
a young woman’s face.

She walks beneath the vaulted
arches
and stately shelves
of humanity’s
accrued and finite wisdom.

History and Science-
Romance and Mystery-
The Bellicose and The Transcendent-
stacked neatly,
and made known.

The measured clicking of her heels
sounds throughout.
She releases a sigh
from a space within-
pillared and buttressed
and no less
marvelous.

She exits in low light
beneath a
glowing, jeweled-green sign,
and leaves the dust
clinging to
stone and wood
and pages undisturbed.