Jill Rothman: Surprises Can Be Counted
b'Borrowing from the library worlds and bundles, hearts and triumphs, characters for company, facts that pull\\xa0try this, try that.\\xa0\\nBut today, reading a poem about home, a polished maple leaf, extending its stem like an arm, falls from the pages where it had been placed to dry by another poetry fan. A forgotten leaf left or purposely so a guest could receive the unexpected.\\xa0\\nI delight in the dilemma of let it hitchhike back in the book or is it my gift to sit in my kitchen on the large maroon plate where it will remind how poems arrive.\\xa0\\n5/24/19 Jill Rothman'