Everything Started In Books Poem by Douglas Scotney

Before Starbucks,
someone put the excess cream
from their poached apricots
into their coffee.
Before that
someone just put cream.

In the beginning,
everything was in books -
unwieldy books.
Animals were removed
and put in the wild,
in stys and pens and folds;
in seas, lakes and brooks.
From the success of that
came such widespread categorizing
that, until just now,
was lost in the forest,
that everything started in books.