San Pedro Regional Branch Library

for the port’s history

a round stained glass

dots the street-facing

facade / a sailboat

in sunset reds

this spot of color

surrounded by

off white surfaces

centers a peaking

angle that hints

at a wave

before momentum

crashes or

at a lateen sail

ready to carry

knowledge away

without you

so unlike cathedral’s

arches guiding

parishioners

to the altar / but

in all these spaces

there is a silence

as if in the presence

of holy things