Wisdom has left
Torn from its orbit the library vessel,untethered.is freeto seek out a worldwere wisdom is prizedmore than the weightof its ink blotted pulp. Free from gravity’s pull,the knowledge has leftin its […]
Category Archives: the aged librarian
Librarians from the past
In the cellars underneath the marble hallsamong discarded manuscripts, cataloguesand inventories the ghosts of old librarianshaunts the crumbling vaults. While roamingwild they sigh in dewey decimal, bemoaningorders lost to dust […]
Library sea – a tableau
by reaching sea-wardshorizon-wide he’sthe last ship to leavebrine-washed and aloneopen book unread every line’s a wavefrom syllables blowncourse laid plotted forfaraway lighthouseto harbours unknown library-oceanmostly unchartedhe is explorerwith compass in […]
The silence inbetween
Between the shelves of early modernand mediaeval historyhe rests his head betweenhis knees and dreamspretending to be asleepbelow the tarmac of a parking lot. He sense the silenceafterwards,the king’s corpse […]
Boxed books
Meandering, bemoaned eachminute detail, on how to cataloguehe dreamt in Dewey Decimal,each word, a part unique, to be tagged,but like blended hues turns greyhis certified collections diminished until I found […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 