Disheveled Leaves

Disarrayed and disheveled
a display shelf is leveled
beveled, embossed, contains no Alex Cross
The Emperor of Maladies
juxtaposed to World Mythology
MAUS below these
and atop the books, Matt Ridley's
Red Queen
and Introducing
Evolution and an unopened - by me,
a borrowed copy of House of Leaves
by Danielewski
Don't see much poetry
between the leaves of these
books but there's some
if you look deep,
you don't see doggerel
there are somethings here that are beautiful