Required Reading

by Teresa Bateman

You never know from the cover

what is rippling in words

on the pages of a book.

You must look within—

ponder printed pages and dive—

Alive in the story, swept in the soul

of a book.

Why then do I,

who cannot be misled by a cover dull or ornate,

hesitate

to give people an open door,

Having had good experience with

the Author

before?