Explorienting
Imagifascination----
Satisfabulous.

Jeff Skocelas
Central Library

Find the library
It's a chamber of secrets,
A wrinkle in time.

Clio V.
Age: 9
School: Orca K-8
Columbia Branch

I learned to knit
from a library book and now
I wear soft, warm hats.

Darcy McMurtery
Ballard Branch

Treasured Northeast Branch
Nested beneath Douglas Firs
Cozy bookishness

Gregory Johnson
Northeast Branch

Breathe in the soft text
Bound endlessly, spine broken
Drown me in your words

Kay W.
Age: 14
School: Nathan Hale High School
Northeast Branch

Frayed man reads in easy
chair. Nobody's homeless
in a library.

Carol Gordon
Lake City Branch

library book on Rin Tin Tin
dog-eared
bookmark wagging

Tom Greggs
Northeast Branch

Happy is she
In the quiet library
On Sunday afternoon

Gail Karges
University Branch

reading books makes me fly
I soar, I glide, I rocket
O how I go high

Aiden S.
Age: 12
School: Pinehurst K-8
Lake City Branch

Open-ended treasure hunt
No book in mind
Serendipitous find!

Betsy Forbes
Southwest Branch

Library, High Point:
My peerless view of the world
Within and without.

Kerry Lusignan
High Point Branch

Books are authors' souls
And each library lets us
See the Wonderlands

Olivia D.
Age: 13
School: Eckstein Middle School
Northeast Branch

What could be better
Than a new novel, waiting -
In books, young again.

Mary Ryan
Northeast Branch

Summer library
Cool, quiet, take me away
Books as childhood friends

Susan Stoltzfus
Central Library

Broadview Library
Reading big books on the floor
To eager grandson

MaryAnn Clymer
Broadview Branch

books are full of words
libraries are full of books
books are awesome worlds

Cameron A.
Age: 11
School: Pinehurst K-8
Northgate Branch

books aplenty, internet
very nice
best of all, I like the price

John Rider
International District / Chinatown Branch

Somewhere to travel
and never get lost,
except maybe in myself.

Jessica Towns
Ballard Branch

How lucky am I?
Plato would be envious
of my library.

Talitha Harper
Queen Anne Branch

Built of steel and glass,
Brick, paper and wire, yet made
Of enlightenment.

Christopher Tuttle
Rainier Beach Branch

Literary garden
pebbles of poems seeds of words
waterfall of books

Vanessa Arpin
Northgate Branch

If I were a goat
I'd graze on Ballard's rooftop
I'm not; I'll browse books

Susan Ovens
Ballard Branch

Book falls off the shelf
Startles man at computer
All is silent now

Ian O.
Age: 10
School: The Bush School
Magnolia Branch

Small girl on tiptoes
Reaching for the highest book
Shelves hold miracles

Gwen Nichols
Magnolia Branch

Pyramid of books,
Branches open every day,
Fremont's rough, hewn beams.

Eileen Michelle Brennan
West Seattle Branch

Still have my Q Card
bookmarking a favorite
line in a novel

Naomi Bishop
Greenwood Branch

Fishing in Green Lake,
heron cocks her gray-blue head
at my library.

Rebecca Albiani
Green Lake Branch

Silent books on shelves
Held captive by their covers
Till eyes give them voice

Susan Guse
Columbia Branch

golden violets
pressed in an old book
tale in a tale

Don Hansbrough
Capitol Hill Branch

light space
children tightly holding books
me with my shiny new card

Adrienne Jones
Ballard Branch