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**The Libraries Didn't Burn**  by Elaine Equi

despite books kindled in electronic flames.

The locket of bookish love still opens and shuts.

But its words have migrated to a luminous elsewhere.

Neither completely oral nor written — a somewhere in between.

Then will oak, willow, birch, and olive poets return to their digital tribes —

trees wander back to the forest?