Mikaela Castledine #131 Reading a Novel in Daylight

I was reading a novel in daylight today

with a deadline to finish it before this evening

and I remembered the time travelling of books

when I was a child

reading all day

emerging drugged and reeling back into the present

blinking and stupid knowing only

that you had been somewhere else

that time had passed

that you were no longer the same

as you were when you set out

It is all quantum physics and Schrodinger’s cat

inside a book

locked inside a book

possibilities being both alive and dead

at the same time right up until you open it