Strathfield Library

who needs bricks when you have books?

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Book Locker One

teal,
yellow,
and blue. 

bookshelves and all. glass walls watching gumtrees

who needs bricks 
when you have books?

a built-to-size wooden ray of sunshine
has been constructed beside
the lego club display
(they meet on Mondays) 

leather cushioned chairs

made of triangles, ovals and squares, all rounded, soft at the edges

who decided squares
were more sensible than circles?

     stairs the A B C D Es graduate to 919.9s and FIs and LPs
up

people scatter to corners like bubbles in water
safely sinking into their laptop screens

 silence and

                  sniffles

                               and

                                        a tutor teaching quietly
                                        a baby exclaiming defiantly

like the single green wall
standing out from the colour scheme
is it just reflecting the trees?
perhaps a memory of a past architect’s dream
for
teal                  yellow                 green.
            and                      and