THE BANNED BOOKMOBILE
Do you need a special license to drive
a bus of books? Children
are more fragile; books,
more combustible.
Children’s minds need fire,
need those books to start a blaze.
How else to know that a pair of penguin
dads can raise a chick?
That witches and wizards can be evil
or good or somewhere in the flawed between?
That even the bluest eye cannot
confer beauty and love?
That it’s a sin to kill
a mockingbird?
THE BANNED BOOKMOBILE by Joanne Corey | Sandalwood & Rose Poetry Reed Diffuser
Joanne Corey is the author of the chapbook Hearts (Kelsay Books, 2023). Her work appears in the Paterson Literary Review, Third Wednesday Magazine, POETiCA REViEW, and several online series with Silver Birch Press and The Ekphrastic Review Writing Challenges, among others. A member of the Grapevine Poets and the Boiler House Poets Collective, she lives near Binghamton, New York (US). She invites you to visit joannecorey.com for links to her work and eclectic blog, Top of JC’s Mind.
