The doors to the library are open today.
Really open.
Not a call ahead and pick up your books
at the front door kind of day,
but a climb the stairs
and peruse the new books collection
and lose oneself in the stacks
poised to find a old friendly treasure kind of day.
Sheer delight after a year away.
Still masked and socially distanced,
but most of all grateful
and keenly aware of the simple things
we once took for granted.