your book can be

your book can be:
upside-down potato prints
of fishes,
wallpaper
patterns with faces
drawn in them,
tables, despatch
notes, ideograms cut out from printed card
and stuck to the page,
blank,
newspapers side-
ways, newspapers
painted, photographs,
misleading instructions,
*redacted*
frontispieces,
shopping lists across the year, a science
fiction novel, research
on technique in marginal
literatures,
collected spam,
collected spam
printed on brown
paper bags, collected
spam hand copied onto post-
it notes and photocopied, pages
painted in blue
poster paints, house
numbers, prints
of household objects -
bucket, stapler, mobile
phone - hand drawn
portraits of family members,
a detailed description of an antique telescope across 64 pages,
licked by wolves, too
heavy to lift,
grass stained,
written in vinegar,
collected envelopes, or brushed with different
shades of rust
and carefully labelled.