I was clicking through the books in my LibraryThing for some inspiration, and wrote some book titles down. . .  Eventually it began to look something like poetry. I added a little punctuation where needed, but nothing other than that. Each line is one title from my library. Poetry? You decide:

1.

Touchy Subjects:

Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

The Forties,

Mad About the Fifties

The Honeymoon’s Over

Marry Me

2.

In Cold Blood

She’s Come Undone

Who Killed My Daughter?

3.

Anza Conquers the Desert

Quite Early One Morning

And Condors Danced

Into the Wild

Home Is the Desert

A Pagan Place

Pale Blue Dot

4.

The Home and the World

Are You Somebody?

5.

Once Were Warriors

The Emperor’s New Soldiers

Now Watch Him Die

Faceless Killers

Masters of Deceit

Bad Karma,

Babycakes.

Final Verdict:

Death.

(The Buried Life)                        

R.I.P.

6.

Born on a Blue Day

Under the Sign of Saturn

Breath,  Eyes,  Memory.

Growing Up Fast,

I Capture the Castle.

Another City, Not My Own

Composing A Life

Desolation Angels

The Other Side of the Dark

Flesh and Fantasy

The Price of My Soul

7.

All the Mothers Are One:

Madame Bovary,

Miss America,

Madonna,

Mama’s Girl,

The Daring Nellie Bly.

All Our Kin

8.

Beloved,

Grey is the Color of Hope.

A Bridge Through Time,

The Country Between Us,

All Will Yet Be Well

9.

Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate:

I Watched A Wild Hog Eat My Baby;

A Confederacy of Dunces

Drowning  Anna.

The Genius and the Goddess

Had A Good Time

Being Dead.

Fugitive From the Cubicle Police,

I Take Pictures For Adventure.

10.

Geek Love:

Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead.

11.

Born to be a Cowgirl

(Gender Outlaw)

Her Eyes -

Listening Now-

Mapping Time.

Nothing Lost

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.