Bookends

by Michael Dylan Welch and Garry Gay

First published in Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2026, page 82. Originally written 27 September 2025 in the Oregon Room in San Francisco’s Holiday Inn Golden Gateway hotel during that year’s Haiku North America conference.

clay tablets

in the British Museum . . .

low ultraviolet light Michael

tales of hidden treasure

in the Dead Sea Scrolls Garry

turning of a page . . .

the Book of Kells

at Trinity College Michael

waiting in line

to view

a Gutenberg Bible Garry

City Lights

selling paperbacks Michael

at the beach

reading a novel

on my Kindle Garry